Re: Efficient way to import snapshots?

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jul 30, 2007, 21:54 UTC
Message-ID: <854pjltv4z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070730180710.GA64467@nowhere>

Craig Boston <craig@olyun.gank.org> writes:

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> So far the main snag I've found is that AFAIK there's no equivalent to
> "svk import" to load a big tree (~37000 files) into a branch and commit
> the changes.  Here's the procedure I've come up with:
>
> cd /path/to/git/repo
> git checkout vendor_branch_X
> git rm -r .
> cp -R /path/to/cvs/checkout_X/* ./
> git add .
> git commit -m"Import yyyymmdd snapshot"

I have not tried it, but shouldn't something like the following work?

cd /path/to/cvs/checkout_X git --git-dir=/path/to/git/repo/.git reset vendor_branch_X git --git-dir=/path/to/git/repo/.git add . git --git-dir=/path/to/git/repo/.git commit -a -m "Import yyyymmdd snapshot"

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