From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 20:30:25 GMT Subject: Re: git cvsimport error Message-ID: <20080523203025.GU29038@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <799406d60805231324o209692d2o59a700024e52100c@mail.gmail.com> Adam Mercer wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Craig L. Ching 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.