From: Ping Yin Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:06:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsps/cvsimport: fix branch point calculation and broken branch imports Message-ID: <46dff0320804262206p76941ee8la6a784ed0b6f8294@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47FC2190.3070303@alum.mit.edu> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote: > > The place where the fixup branch logic needs to be is in git-cvsimport, > > not in cvsps. Better yet, get rid of git-cvsimport and replace it with > > cvs2git if it works better. > > cvs2git hopefully gives a more accurate conversion of a CVS repository > -- it handles all of the cases described above, plus many more [1] -- > but it is much slower and can't work incrementally. So there is > definitely still demand for something like git-cvsimport. > These days i tried to convert the cvs repository into git. I really want the conversion to be as accurate as possible. However, the cvs repository has been tagged in a very bad style which makes git-cvsimport or cvsps not work well. cvs2git sounds to be the right tool i should try. Unfortualely, i can't touch the cvs repository directly. So is it possible to use cvs2git in the remote host instead of the host of the cvs repository just as git-cvsimport does? Yes, i know it can't now. I just wonder whether it is possible to implement. I choose to reply to this thread instead of opening a new one because i think this reply of Michael has told much shortcommings of git-cvsimport or cvsps but had got no replies yet. -- Ping Yin