From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:16:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport fuzzy commit log matching?
Message-ID: <20081223151643.GA18657@lst.de>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90812230453m4122e018l2cc22be3f40ab630@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:53:42AM -0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> What you could do is
> 
>  1 - run cvsps with export to a file (I've posted in this list how to
> run it exactly as cvsimport does)
>  2 - post-process cvsps ouput with perl (there's a parser already in
> cvsimport ;-) )
>  3 - run cvsimport with the post-processed file
> 
> Or postprocess the imported git tree as others have suggested.

Instead of post-processing I hacked cvsps.  It already has a different
way to detect changesets when running in --bkcvs mode, and re-using that
one for ptools works great.