From: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:47:35 GMT
Subject: Re: cvsimport: trying to convert freebsd cvs to git
Message-ID: <pan.2007.12.23.01.47.29@progsoc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071222171801.GE15286@genesis.frugalware.org>

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:18:01 +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:

> hi,
> 
> recently Stefan reported that he tried to convert the freebsd cvs' src
> module to git and he failed. i tried to help him, but i failed, too.
> here are my efforts:
> 
> he made the cvs available on a (relatively) fast rsync mirror at:
> 
> rsync://ftp.spline.de/FreeBSD-CVS
> 
> (so you don't have to use cvsup if it's a problem for you)
> 
> so after mirroring it, i had:
> 
> $ ls cvs
> CVSROOT/  CVSROOT-ports/  CVSROOT-src/  ports/  src/
> 

A few days prior to your email, someone else asked a similar question:

Some tools you can use:

git-cvsimport (via cvsps)
parsecvs
fromcvs
cvs2svn (development branch)

There is a more detailed listing on the wiki at
<http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/
InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#head-8870e1c81cc93f9a7a7acb5e969924ee60182d6b>

If you have access to the raw ",v" files as you do, I would suggest you 
try out parsecvs. It will not do incremental imports but will you a good 
idea of how you can expect the converted repository to behave / act.

Anand