Git over cvs

Hi there,

I got so annoyed by (my own incompetence using) cvs on mozdev that I got myself to use git cvsimport/cvsexportcommit now, just shortly before it gets obsoleted by the new shiny remote helpers, and knowing how many failing tests we have for it now.

Setting up a convenient roundtrip with minimal exposure to cvs required collecting some scattered info. I thought this makes a good first blog entry (the one after the zeroth) for reference, so in case anyone is interested:

http://grubix.blogspot.com/2009/11/git-over-cvs.html

I guess it does require some acquaintance with Git, that's intentional. (In short it uses the combined work tree, -W approach.)

Cheers, Michael

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