Re: git cvsimport error

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: May 23, 2008, 20:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20080523203025.GU29038@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <799406d60805231324o209692d2o59a700024e52100c@mail.gmail.com>

Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Craig L. Ching <cching@mqsoftware.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, I don't know much about it at all, but my advice would be to run
> > cvsps by itself and generate a cache that git-fast-import can import.
> > That's the approach we're taking because it gives us a chance to figure
> > out where things have gone wrong as we have some bad, buggy commits in
> > our archive (CVS created the bad commits).
> 
> I thought of using git-fast-import but the problem is that the CVS
> repository is still in use so I need to keep the git and CVS repos
> synchronised and it seems like git-fast-import can't be used in this
> case.

You can run fast-import in incremental behavior. You just have to restart each branch with a "from refs/heads/master^0" or whatever. There's some discussion of this in the (rather large) fast-import man page.

-- 
Shawn.