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Re: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)

From
Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2013, 20:43 UTC
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Ilya Basin wrote:
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> Does this --fast-export thing support what John mentioned, the
> "incremental import support"? Does 'git fast-import' has it?
> I need it, because full import takes too long.
>
> The central repo of my employer is CVS, other people commit to it and
> I use git internally to be able to tidy my commit history before
> exporting to CVS.

Errr... the need to interact with *live* CVS repository is reason behind wanting incremental import, isn't it?

I wonder how hard would be to create a remote helper for CVS, so that one could treat CVS repository as foreign remote, fetching from it and pushing to it...

BTW. can you convince your employer to move to more modern version control system (be it Subversion, Kiln Harmony, Veracity, Bazaar, Mercurial or Git) rather than rely on system which had last release in 2008 i.e. 4 years ago, doesn't support atomic commits, doesn't support versioning of whole repository aka. changesets (beside tags), has slow and complicated branching and even more complicated merging, etc.?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/802573/difference-between-git-and-cvs/824241#824241
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Jakub Narębski
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Message 7 of 16 in “cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc”
  1. Ilya BasinApr 14, 2013
  2. Ilya BasinApr 14, 2013
  3. John KeepingApr 14, 2013
  4. State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)Eric S. Raymond, Apr 14, 2013
  5. Michael HaggertyApr 15, 2013
  6. Ilya BasinApr 15, 2013
  7. Jakub NarębskiApr 15, 2013
  8. Eric S. RaymondApr 18, 2013
  9. Does git fast-import support deltas?Ilya Basin, Apr 19, 2013
  10. Felipe ContrerasApr 19, 2013
  11. Jonathan NiederApr 19, 2013
  12. Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)Ilya Basin, Apr 20, 2013
  13. Eric S. RaymondApr 23, 2013
  14. Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)Ilya Basin, Apr 23, 2013
  15. Eric S. RaymondApr 23, 2013
  16. Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)Ilya Basin, Apr 24, 2013

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