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Re: files missing after converting a cvs repository to git

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Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Oct 7, 2008, 10:46 UTC
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Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> cvs2svn is apparently quite good at getting even the weirdest history
>> right. Perhaps you can try that and then running "git svn" on the
>> resulting svn repo?
> 
> cvs2svn has git output now (I think it is actually fast-import output)

Correct. See http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html for more info. I suggest using the trunk version of cvs2svn for conversions to git.

Please note, however, that cvs2svn can only handle one-time conversions (i.e., not tracking a live CVS repository incrementally).

Michael
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