From: Michael Haggerty Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:09:30 GMT Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git Message-ID: <4699034A.9090603@alum.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <46a038f90707132230n120e6392uaf5cd86ff10b6012@mail.gmail.com> Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 7/14/07, Michael Haggerty wrote: >> Incidentally, now that cvs2svn 2.0.0 is nearly out, I am thinking about >> what it would take to write some other back ends for cvs2svn--turning >> it, essentially, into cvs2xxx. Most of the work that cvs2svn does is >> inferring the most plausible history of the repository from CVS's >> sketchy, incomplete, idiomatic, and often corrupt data. This work >> should also be useful for a cvs2git or cvs2hg or cvs2baz or ... > > Great to hear that. I'm game if we can do something in this direction > - surely we can make it talk to fastimport ;-) We added some hooks to cvs2svn 2.0 to start working in this direction. But I don't really know what information is needed for a git import. One quick-and-dirty idea that I had was to have cvs2svn output information compatible with cvsps's output, as I believe that several tools rely on cvsps to do the dirty work and so could perhaps be persuaded to use cvs2svn out of the box. > Does cvs2svn handle incremental imports, remembering any "guesses" > taken earlier? Last time I looked at it, it had far better logic than > cvsps, but it didn't do incremental imports, and repeated imports done > at different times would "guess" different branching points for new > branches, so it _really_ didn't support incrementals That's correct; cvs2svn does not support incremental conversion at all (at least not yet). Michael