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CVSImport - spaces in CVS path

Subject: CVSImport - spaces in CVS path

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2 messages between Nov 30, 2016 and Dec 1, 2016.

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Yojoa· Nov 30, 2016, 20:56 UTC · lore

I'm in the process of moving an entire collection of cvs modules into git. I'm working in Mac Yosemite. Everything is working fine except for one thing. A couple of the CVS modules have spaces in the paths. Below is what my command line looks like. When the path has spaces I've tried putting it in single and double quotes and using escape characters. None of that matters. I always get a message that it can't read dir/dir/path and then messages that it can't find the modules "with" or "spaces".

git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:MYLOGIN:/usr/local/cvsroot/ dir/dir/PathWithNoSpaces/dir

git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:MYLOGIN:/usr/local/cvsroot/ dir/dir/path with spaces/dir

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David Aguilar· Dec 1, 2016, 09:59 UTC · re: Yojoa · lore

Re: CVSImport - spaces in CVS path

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 01:56:35PM -0700, Yojoa wrote:

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> I'm in the process of moving an entire collection of cvs modules into git.
> I'm working in Mac Yosemite. Everything is working fine except for one
> thing. A couple of the CVS modules have spaces in the paths. Below is what
> my command line looks like. When the path has spaces I've tried putting it
> in single and double quotes and using escape characters.  None of that
> matters. I always get a message that it can't read dir/dir/path and then
> messages that it can't find the modules "with" or "spaces".  
> 
> git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:MYLOGIN:/usr/local/cvsroot/
> dir/dir/PathWithNoSpaces/dir    
> 
> git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:MYLOGIN:/usr/local/cvsroot/ dir/dir/path with
> spaces/dir

Try cvs-fast-export + cvsconvert.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/cvs-fast-export/

http://www.catb.org/~esr/cvs-fast-export/cvsconvert.html

-- 
David