Re: Using subversion tools on Mozilla CVS

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Jun 4, 2006, 15:20 UTC
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP08068F9BD23CF4FA8A1BDBAE970@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606032009p252ff5fai7401401427ae3ec3@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 23:09:00 -0400 "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I found this tool written in Python for importing CVS into Subversion.
> It seems to be handling the Mozilla CVS repository with fewer problems
> than parsecvs.
> 
> http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2svn.html
> 
> Since I'm not a native Python speaker, anyone else want to give a try
> at changing it to support git?

 
Hi Jon,

If you haven't tried to import into git with a recent version of git-cvsimport, it would be worth a shot.

As for the tool you've referenced above, it does look pretty good. It makes multiple passes and saves to a temp file after each, letting you resume from that point and means it can use less memory overall.

It can produce a pretty straight forward looking dump file if you pass it the "--dump-only" option, rather than it pushing the results into svn; for instance:

 $ cvs2svn --dump-only --dumpfile DUMPFILE <cvs directory>

It shouldn't be too hard to write a script that imports the revisions found in the resulting DUMPFILE into git.

Sean