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Re: Working with Git and CVS in a team.

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MSMirko Stocker <me@misto.ch>
Date
Jun 15, 2008, 20:22 UTC
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On Friday 13 June 2008 22:55:26 Jeff King wrote:
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> Ah, I hadn't thought of that. Apparently git-cvsimport doesn't
> understand bare repos. There is even a Debian bug reported:
>
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472873
>
> You might be able to hack around it with:
>
>   mkdir bare.git && (cd bare.git && git init)
>   mkdir cvsimport-hack && ln -s ../bare.git cvsimport-hack/.git
>   git cvsimport -C cvsimport-hack
Uh, ok.. :) Thanks.

I just wondered, do I even need the additional bare repository? If I use git-cvsimport with -i, then it creates only the .git without doing a checkout, then we could just clone this one from the clients and pull/push to it?

Thanks
Mirko
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  4. Miklos VajnaJun 13, 2008
  5. Mirko StockerJun 15, 2008
  6. Miklos VajnaJun 15, 2008
  7. John J. FraneyJun 16, 2008
  8. Jakub NarebskiJun 16, 2008
  9. Jeff KingJun 13, 2008
  10. Mirko StockerJun 13, 2008
  11. Jeff KingJun 13, 2008
  12. Mirko StockerJun 15, 2008
  13. Jeff KingJun 15, 2008
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