Re: [PATCH] cvsps/cvsimport: fix branch point calculation and broken branch imports

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 27, 2008, 05:51 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320804262251g3a0f12b2rb9197fc07ea57c51@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48141379.9030306@alum.mit.edu>

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

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> Ping Yin wrote:
>  > 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.
>
>  cvs2svn/cvs2git itself can't work with remote repositories.  It would be
>  enough if you could just get a copy of the repository; obviously you
>  don't need to use the original.
>
>  If you can't get a copy of the CVS repository directly, you might be
>  able to recreate it indirectly via information read over the CVS
>  protocol using a tool like CVSsuck [1,2].  I have no experience with
>  CVSsuck, so if you try it out, please let us know whether you were
>  successful.
>

THX. If i try out cvssuck, i will let you know.

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Ping Yin