complex cvs import

Hi All,

During the past year or so we have been using a bastardized version of CVS in which branches were not 'true' cvs branches, but just a copy of the original data in a different folder. For instance, we would have something like this:

ProjectX
   \---- dev01
   |       \... normal cvs data
   \---- dev02
   |       \... normal cvs data
   \---- release01
   |       \... normal cvs data
   \---- release02
           \... normal cvs data

While a timeline of the branches looks like this:

                /---release01
----dev01------+                /---release02
                \---dev02------+--

Now that we are trying to move to git, and I'm having problems importing the projects with their full history.

What I have done is use git-cvsimport on each of those branches to create separate git repositories: dev01, dev02, release01, and release02.

What I was planing on doing next was:
(all from the dev01 branch)
1) git branch dev01
2) git checkout -b release01
3) git pull ssh:/..../release01
4) git checkout -b dev02
5) git pull ssh:/..../dev02
6) git checkout -b release02
7) git pull ssh:/..../release02

Now, the problem I'm seeing is that I get hundreds of conflicts when pulling.

Short from doing a git-mergetool 100's of times, is there a better way of doing this? One that guarantees I keep the latests version (ie, the one I'm pulling from). Put in another way, is there a way to let git know that it will not merge the last version of the files, just the history?

Cheers.

Luis Gutierrez