Re: Git and cvsimport

From: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Date: Apr 27, 2010, 11:58 UTC
Message-ID: <r2xd2d39d861004270458v2e1cb73by78f53d71103b47e6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <l2w717f7a3e1004270341lea6cfe2aqdf8d2b490b1ec067@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:41, Marin Atanasov <dnaeon@gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps I didn't explain better what I want to accomplish :)
>
> I want to convert CVS repo to a Git one.

But the above statement.. [..]

> What I want to do is to checkout from CVS the files which are tagged
> RELEASE_1_0 for example, and then import the files to a Git repo.
> Files tagged as RELEASE_1_0 differ from HEAD files, so I want only
> those files with that tag for example.

.. seems to be in conflict with the above paragraph. Files tagged with RELEASE_1_0 sounds like a revision tag (i.e. not a branch). If you want to checkout that snapshot and insert into a Git rep you could as well just 'cvs export -r RELEASE_1_0 <module>; git init; git add .; git commit' but that obviously won't give you any CVS history in the Git repo.

Is RELEASE_1_0 instead a branch tag? I.e. a CVS branch?

-Tor