Re: files missing after converting a cvs repository to git

From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2008, 15:58 UTC
Message-ID: <799406d60810070858peb97434p9c9fb0c1128dc8e9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <48EB3E06.70100@alum.mit.edu>

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 05:46, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Jakub Narebski wrote:

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>>> 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).

Thanks, I'll look into this for creating the final git repos.

Cheers

Adam