From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:46:30 GMT
Subject: Re: files missing after converting a cvs repository to git
Message-ID: <48EB3E06.70100@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <gcfcrg$ubc$1@ger.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 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