From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:43:33 GMT
Subject: Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708021340450.8184@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <65F1862F-4DF2-4A52-9FD5-20802AEACDAB@zib.de>



On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> 
> Right now, I'd prefer the import by parsecvs because of the
> simpler history. However, I don't know if I loose history
> information by doing so. I'd start by a run of cvs2svn to validate
> the overall structure of the CVS repository.

Well, once imported, you could just go through the branches and tags, and 
just delete the ones you consider uninteresting, and then do a "git gc".

You'd want to re-pack after a fast-import anyway (regardless of the source 
of the fast-import input), so maybe cvs2svn ends up giving you a bit 
unnecessary info, but it should be easy enough to get rid of 
after-the-fact.

		Linus