Re: All I wanted was git-fast-export

From: Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>
Date: Feb 9, 2008, 22:44 UTC
Message-ID: <47AE2CDF.4090208@glidos.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802091803580.11591@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> 
>> With your kind help, I've been able to convert a cvs repository
>> to git, but the last several years commits start with a line
>> saying "Summary;" :-(  I thought it might not be hard to put
>> a filter between git-fast-export and git-fast-import to sort
>> it out.
> 
> The better tool for this should be filter-branch.

filter-branch does look to be brilliant for this sort of thing, but I don't think I can use it in my case. The git repository in question is a mirror of a live cvs repository, which I need to keep synced up. What I was thinking was to repeatedly do:

   cvs rep  =>  git rep   => tidied git rep

using fromcvs/togit for the first step, and git-fast-export/git-fast-import for the second. It doesn't look to be the case that filter-branch can be used with the source and target repositories being different, and if I tried having one git repository that I applied tidying to, then I don't think the syncing process would work afterwards... or would it? Do you thing that changing commit messages would mess up subsequent syncing? I guess I could try it and see.

I think I need git 1.5.4 either way, and I still haven't found a way to get that installed under SuSE 10.3

P.