Re: help with cvsimport

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Raimund Bauer wrote:
>
>   
>> I unfortunately have to work with several cvs-repositories and was
>> wondering if there was a way to have the files processed on import:
>> - strip trailing whitespace
>> - convert to newline-only line endings
>>     
>
> If you want to use cvsimport incrementally, I'd rather not process the 
> "origin" branch like this, but rather use git-filter-branch (with a simple 
> index filter) to do that.
>
> Even if you do not want to use it incrementally, it seems easier and 
> cleaner (if somewhat slower) to me.
>
> So, something like
>
> 	git filter-branch --index-filter 'git ls-files |
> 		while read name; do
> 			perl -pi -e "s/[ \009\015]*$//" "$name"
> 		done
> 		git add -u' cleaned-up-origin
>
> should do.
>