Re: Importing all modules in a CVS repo with git-cvsimport

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 19, 2008, 20:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20080319204154.GA19556@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1205951736.24610.3.camel@pitcairn.cambridgebroadband.com>

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:35:36PM +0000, Alex Bennee wrote:

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> I'm wanting to import the entirety of a CVS repository into git rather
> than an individual module. However every approach I've tried to do this
> fails as the underlying cvsps tool seems to only be able to deal with
> modules rather than the whole project.
> 
> Is there any invocation I could do that would do the whole import?

What do you want the result to look like? If you have CVS modules 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz', I assume you want a repository with subdirectories 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz'?

In that case, you can create a CVS module that just includes all three:

  cd /path/to/cvsroot
  mkdir all
  cd all
  for i in foo bar baz; do
    ln -s ../$i
  done

and then:

  git cvsimport all

You might be able to do something similar with the CVSROOT/modules file, but I haven't tried.

-Peff