interaction between cvsimport and cvsexportcommit

Hello

In the institut where I am working www.synchrotron-soleil.fr, the "computing department" use CVS for all their projects. As I am not from this department (I am a scientist), I can use my own tools and git is one of them. Nevertheless I need to interact with them (I am writting a C++ library to control diffractometers) so I use cvsimport and cvsexportcommit.

The point is that I find this over complicate compare to my git day-to-day experience.

I do not understand why cvsimport and cvsexportcommit do not interact nicelly to ease git <-> cvs. For example as a neeby I expect this to work out of the box after the first cvsimport

git cvsimport do some work git commit -a git cvsexportcommit

and that's all

Instead of this we have this:

$ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git $ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout $ git-cvsexportcommit -v <commit-sha1> $ cvs commit -F .mgs <files>

or even worse

$ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git $ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout $ git-cherry cvshead myhead | sed -n 's/^+ //p' | xargs -l1 git-cvsexportcommit -c -p -v

what is missing in cvsexportcommit and cvsimport to lower the git <-> cvs barrier.

Thank you.

Frederic

PS: Sorry for my poor english.

fredag 08 juni 2007 skrev picca:

git-cvsexportcommit was written (I assume, since I did not actually write the original version) to solve a problem and not to be a perfect solution.

Later I found it didn't do what I needed so I made improvements (to solve /my/ problems, mainly in reliability and completeness (binaries, add remove, all or nothing). The rest was just inconvenience and I did not consider my solution to that universally viable so I didn't include it in in cvsexportcommit.

This assume you really want to export all. I don't, but I agree that it should in principle be this simple. Patches anyone?

Here is my script that I use to export. It takes as arguments a number of commits or stgit patches. Note that hardcoded path to the CVS checkout...

Here's an exercise to the reader: Modify git-cvsexportcommit so it takes the path to the CVS checkout from 1) a parameter (e.g. -w /checkout) or 2) a git config variable. That will get get us a small step closer. It will be fairly easy.

Cheers
	-- robin

--------------------------8<------------------------- #!/bin/bash -ex

if [ "$1" = "-p" ]
then
        P="-p $2"
        shift 2
fi
export GIT_DIR=$(git-rev-parse --git-dir)
GIT_DIR=$(cd $GIT_DIR;pwd)
cd ../Iris.CVSsynconly
for patch in "$@"
do
        if commit=$(git-rev-parse $patch 2>/dev/null); then
            git-cvsexportcommit-u $(echo $P) -c $commit
        else
            head=$(git-symbolic-ref HEAD)
            br=${head#refs/heads/}
            if commit=$(git-rev-parse refs/patches/$br/$patch); then
                git-cvsexportcommit -u $(echo $P) -c $commit
            fi
        fi
done