Re: [cvsimport] Import CVS repository from a specified date or branch name

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Oct 23, 2009, 20:10 UTC
Message-ID: <m2k4ylq3bz.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <4AE160BC.5000608@vipco.de>

Klaus Rödel <klaus.roedel@vipco.de> writes:

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> I have a very large and old (serveral years) cvs repository and I want to
> import this in git.
> For my work it is not nessecary to import all the revision history from
> the cvs repository.
> It is engough to import only the revisions from a specified date or branch
> name of the cvs repo.
>
> Is this possible with git-cvsimport?
> If yes, how?

You may be able to do that by passing the right arguments to cvsps. From cvsps --help:

  -d <date1> -d <date2> if just one date specified, show
     revisions newer than date1.  If two dates specified,
     show revisions between two dates.
  -b <branch> restrict output to patch sets affecting history of branch

Andreas.

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