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Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc

From
John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date
Apr 14, 2013, 09:47 UTC
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<20130414094756.GA2278@serenity.lan>
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<673219382.20130414124800@gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:48:00PM +0400, Ilya Basin wrote:
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> IB> Hi esr.
> IB> In cvsps 3.10 the flag --norc was removed. It broke 'git cvsimport'.
> IB> Please give the option back and write something in the man page like:
> IB>     This option has no effect; it is present for compatibility
> 
> Looks like the tool is completely different. I think I'll have to
> downgrade.

If you want incremental import support, then that's the best thing to do. There was some discussion about this in January [1] and it doesn't look like cvsps-3 has changed since then, so if you want to incrementally update a Git clone of a CVS repository then cvsps-2 is really the only way to go.

If you're doing a one-off import then I recommend ignoring git-cvsimport and investigating cvs2svn[2] and cvs-fast-export [3].

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/214258/focus=214305 [2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html [3] https://gitorious.org/cvs-fast-export

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Message 3 of 16 in “cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc”
  1. Ilya BasinApr 14, 2013
  2. Ilya BasinApr 14, 2013
  3. John KeepingApr 14, 2013
  4. State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)Eric S. Raymond, Apr 14, 2013
  5. Michael HaggertyApr 15, 2013
  6. Ilya BasinApr 15, 2013
  7. Jakub NarębskiApr 15, 2013
  8. Eric S. RaymondApr 18, 2013
  9. Does git fast-import support deltas?Ilya Basin, Apr 19, 2013
  10. Felipe ContrerasApr 19, 2013
  11. Jonathan NiederApr 19, 2013
  12. Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)Ilya Basin, Apr 20, 2013
  13. Eric S. RaymondApr 23, 2013
  14. Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)Ilya Basin, Apr 23, 2013
  15. Eric S. RaymondApr 23, 2013
  16. Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)Ilya Basin, Apr 24, 2013

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