CVS <--> GIT workflow...

Hi all,

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I am wondering if there's any best practises/howtos on using CVS and Git together. I have a project which is currently residing in CVS; people actively use it to add changes, etc. Which is fine -- and for a variety of reasons we're unable to simply switch away from using CVS to Git.

So... the question is, can I use Git locally to manage all my work in -- create topic branches, merge them, etc., and then commit that back out to the CVS repository? Likewise, I would need to keep my Git repository in synch with any changes to the CVS repository -- is that possible? Has anyone else done something like this? What I am effectively wanting to do is Git for my entire development on this project and just forget it even uses CVS.

I've read up on git-cvsimport which seems to explain how to convert a current CVS repo over to Git -- is that right? Any information you can point me to would be very welcome. I am not adverse to reading, providing it's useful to me. :)

Thanks, in advance,

David