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cvs -> git tools?

Subject: cvs -> git tools?

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5 messages between Dec 21, 2007 and Dec 22, 2007.

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Gonzalo Garramuño· Dec 21, 2007, 20:10 UTC · lore

I was wondering if there were any tools to keep a mirror repository of CVS as a git repository.

Basically, I would like to mirror a CVS repository (that I don't control) as a git "main" branch. This CVS repository is live and expected to remain so.

I would then work on another git branch and would do merges from the main branch to mine as I see fit to develop some stuff.

Is there anything like that? Basically, I'm looking for the equivalent of Tailor for Mercurial.

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As a second question...

Are there any good websites that can host a git repository? Something equivalent to sourceforge but for git.

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Pascal Obry· Dec 21, 2007, 20:46 UTC · re: Gonzalo Garramuño · lore

Re: cvs -> git tools?

Gonzalo,

> I was wondering if there were any tools to keep a mirror repository of
> CVS as a git repository.

I'm no expert on this, maybe cvsimport. I'll let other answer.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-cvsimport.html

> As a second question...
> 
> Are there any good websites that can host a git repository?  Something
> equivalent to sourceforge but for git.

Savannah support Git.

There is also http://repo.or.cz

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Jakub Narebski· Dec 21, 2007, 22:02 UTC · re: Gonzalo Garramuño · lore

Re: cvs -> git tools?

Gonzalo Garramuño <ggarra@advancedsl.com.ar> writes:

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> I was wondering if there were any tools to keep a mirror repository of
> CVS as a git repository.
> 
> Basically, I would like to mirror a CVS repository (that I don't
> control) as a git "main" branch.  This CVS repository is live and
> expected to remain so.
> 
> I would then work on another git branch and would do merges from the
> main branch to mine as I see fit to develop some stuff.
> 
> Is there anything like that?   Basically, I'm looking for the
> equivalent of Tailor for Mercurial.

Tailor supports Git, too.

There are many CVS -> git tools: git-cvsimport (uses cvsps), parsecvs (accesses ,v files directly), fromcvs (in Ruby), cvs2svn development branch. But I think only git-cvsimport allows incremental import.

Another solution would be to set Git repository as a fake CVS repository using git-cvsserver (now with beginning of authenticated pserver access!).

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David Soria Parra· Dec 22, 2007, 16:00 UTC · re: Jakub Narebski · lore

Re: cvs -> git tools?

> There are many CVS -> git tools: git-cvsimport (uses cvsps), parsecvs
> (accesses ,v files directly), fromcvs (in Ruby), cvs2svn development
> branch. But I think only git-cvsimport allows incremental import.

there is also gc-utils (http://sf.net/projects/gcutils) which wraps git-cvsimport and git-cvsexportcommit to make commiting back into CVS a little bit easier.

Jakub Narebski· Dec 21, 2007, 22:07 UTC · re: Gonzalo Garramuño · lore

Re: cvs -> git tools?

Gonzalo Garramuño <ggarra@advancedsl.com.ar> writes:

> Are there any good websites that can host a git repository?  Something
> equivalent to sourceforge but for git.

Check out the end of the GitProjects page on GitWiki:
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitProjects

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