interaction between cvsimport and cvsexportcommit

Hello

In the institut where I am working www.synchrotron-soleil.fr, the "computing department" use CVS for all their projects. As I am not from this department (I am a scientist), I can use my own tools and git is one of them. Nevertheless I need to interact with them (I am writting a C++ library to control diffractometers) so I use cvsimport and cvsexportcommit.

The point is that I find this over complicate compare to my git day-to-day experience.

I do not understand why cvsimport and cvsexportcommit do not interact nicelly to ease git <-> cvs. For example as a neeby I expect this to work out of the box after the first cvsimport

git cvsimport do some work git commit -a git cvsexportcommit

and that's all

Instead of this we have this:

$ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git $ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout $ git-cvsexportcommit -v <commit-sha1> $ cvs commit -F .mgs <files>

or even worse

$ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git $ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout $ git-cherry cvshead myhead | sed -n 's/^+ //p' | xargs -l1 git-cvsexportcommit -c -p -v

what is missing in cvsexportcommit and cvsimport to lower the git <-> cvs barrier.

Thank you.

Frederic

PS: Sorry for my poor english.