Re: PVCS (or RCS) importer for Git?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 28, 2008, 16:33 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803281730060.18259@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803281713230.24460@ds9.cixit.se>

Hi,

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote:

> Has anyone written an importer to import sources stored in PVCS into
> Git?

I once tried, but apparently, there are different repository formats for PVCS. For example, pvcs2cvs did not work for me. IIRC I used a simple shell script to convert pvcs (using the mega-slow command line tools) to ,v files. Then I converted that to Git.

But it was pretty bad, the incremental update was broken more often than not.

And after a few days, it became apparent that I do not need a full import, but that a simple commit-to-git-after-a-pvcs-update would be sufficient.

> I have had some limited success by running a the pvcs2rcs.pl script from 
> CVS's sources and converting that to Git using cvs2svn, but I believe 
> the result could be better if I converted directly.

Judging from the problems of importing CVS to Git (which mostly stem from the file-versioning paradigm), I suggest not trying to be too clever, but convert it to cvs and use a good cvs importer, such as cvs2svn (which despite its name also imports into Git) or parsecvs.

Ciao, Dscho