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Re: Importing all modules in a CVS repo with git-cvsimport

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Mar 19, 2008, 20:10 UTC
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Alex Bennee wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm wanting to import the entirety of a CVS repository into git rather
> than an individual module. However every approach I've tried to do this
> fails as the underlying cvsps tool seems to only be able to deal with
> modules rather than the whole project.
> 
> Is there any invocation I could do that would do the whole import?

A for loop? I don't think it's possible to treat the modules as just subdirectories, but you can loop over the modules, importing each of them into a separate git repository and then, if you want, merge each of them into a new master repository with the "subdirectory" strategy.

	-Daniel
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