From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:55:38 GMT
Subject: Re: files missing after converting a cvs repository to git
Message-ID: <799406d60810070855y53cf5191m111ce8f5380f96c6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48EAFCEF.8030907@op5.se>

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 01:08, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:

> Has the CVS repo been tampered with in the past? If so, it's entirely
> possible that checking out and working with CVS works just fine, but
> getting history into coherent changesets is impossible.

Unfortunately yes. Thats what I thought, and was afraid, was going on.
I've managed to get things working by restoring some of the missing
files ,v files from a backup and regenerating the tracking
repositories. Then I had to remove the files in question from cvs and
readd them, git cvsimport then saw these files.

> 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?

Thanks, I'll give cvs2svn a go.

> Good luck. You'll probably need it :-/

Cheers

Adam