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

From: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
Date: Mar 20, 2008, 08:30 UTC
Message-ID: <b2cdc9f30803200130w11669e51o5b273ee5eba7458@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0803191602110.19665@iabervon.org>

On 3/19/08, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Alex Bennee wrote:
>
>  > 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.

Unfortunately the repository is treated as one big ode dump place so I don't want to loose the information about changes across many dirs/modules. I shall try the "fakeing up" approach mentioned elsewhere and see where that gets me.

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