Re: Some tips for doing a CVS importer

From: lamikr <lamikr@cc.jyu.fi>
Date: Nov 21, 2006, 19:56 UTC
Message-ID: <456359E2.8010403@cc.jyu.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20061121063934.GA3332@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce wrote:

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> Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> brendan said SVN is likely for the main Mozilla repo and monotone for
>> the new Mozilla 2 work. No native win32 caused git to be immediately
>> discarded.
>>     
>
> Yea, that lack of native win32 seems to be one of a number of
> blockers for people switching their projects onto Git.
>
> I think there's a number of issues that are keeping people from
> switching to Git and are instead causing them to choose SVN, hg
> or Monotone:
>
>   - No GUI.
>

QGIT allows using some commands. I plan to try out the GIT eclipse plugin in near future myself. This mail list have some discussion and download link to it's repo in archives. (title: Java GIT/Eclipse GIT version 0.1.1, )

>   - No native win32 installation.
>   - CVS import fails on some projects (e.g. Mozilla).
>

Well, committing the files from Mozilla cvs to svn has also own problems. SVN accepts only a text files which have either a "Unix" or DOS style line endings. If file contains a both some lines using "Unix" way and others using dos way SVN roll's back the commit and you need to tools like "dos2unix" or "unix2dos" to manipulate those. (And randomly changing all to either of those is propably not a good idea)