Re: [PATCH] cvsimport: rewritten in Perl

From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@liacs.nl>
Date: Jun 30, 2005, 19:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20050630193825.GA17345@pc117b.liacs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20050630161043.GR10850@kiste.smurf.noris.de>

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:10:43PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> I'll find it. However, you don't actually need to re-import your
> existing CVS->GIT trees; as long as the dates and the branch names
> match, my script will continue where the other left off.

That seems to work, once I figured out I had to pass in the "-o master" option (as cvs2git didn't create an "origin" branch).

If you don't, you get a rather cryptic message: usage: git-read-tree (<sha> | -m [-u] <sha1> [<sha2> [<sha3>]]) read-tree failed: 256

You probably want to check whether the origin branch actually exists.

Apparently you also need to pass the '-x' option to cvsps. Otherwise, it won't look at anything new.

It would also be nice if the user could pass extra options to cvsps (notably '-z').

skimo