# help with cvsimport

3 messages from 2007-06-23 to 2007-06-24. Participants: Raimund Bauer, Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8686

## Raimund Bauer, 2007-06-23 09:11

Subject: help with cvsimport
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Hi,

I unfortunately have to work with several cvs-repositories and was
wondering if there was a way to have the files processed on import:
- strip trailing whitespace
- convert to newline-only line endings

Knowing git there probably is already a way to do that - I'd appreciate
any rtfm-pointers ...

Many thanks in advance

-- 
best regards

  Ray

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## Johannes Schindelin, 2007-06-23 11:27

Subject: Re: help with cvsimport
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706231213020.4059@racer.site>
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Hi,

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Raimund Bauer wrote:

> I unfortunately have to work with several cvs-repositories and was
> wondering if there was a way to have the files processed on import:
> - strip trailing whitespace
> - convert to newline-only line endings

If you want to use cvsimport incrementally, I'd rather not process the 
"origin" branch like this, but rather use git-filter-branch (with a simple 
index filter) to do that.

Even if you do not want to use it incrementally, it seems easier and 
cleaner (if somewhat slower) to me.

So, something like

	git filter-branch --index-filter 'git ls-files |
		while read name; do
			perl -pi -e "s/[ \009\015]*$//" "$name"
		done
		git add -u' cleaned-up-origin

should do.

Hth,
Dscho

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## Raimund Bauer, 2007-06-24 09:37

Subject: Re: help with cvsimport
Message-ID: <467E3B5F.5070508@gmx.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/467E3B5F.5070508%40gmx.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706231213020.4059@racer.site>

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Hi,

* Johannes Schindelin wrote, On 23.06.2007 13:27:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Raimund Bauer wrote:
>
>   
>> I unfortunately have to work with several cvs-repositories and was
>> wondering if there was a way to have the files processed on import:
>> - strip trailing whitespace
>> - convert to newline-only line endings
>>     
>
> If you want to use cvsimport incrementally, I'd rather not process the 
> "origin" branch like this, but rather use git-filter-branch (with a simple 
> index filter) to do that.
>
> Even if you do not want to use it incrementally, it seems easier and 
> cleaner (if somewhat slower) to me.
>
> So, something like
>
> 	git filter-branch --index-filter 'git ls-files |
> 		while read name; do
> 			perl -pi -e "s/[ \009\015]*$//" "$name"
> 		done
> 		git add -u' cleaned-up-origin
>
> should do.
>   
Thanks, will try that out.
Tough I'm not very happy about having to create an extra branch for 
every branch I want to work with.
And a git-solution would also respect git-attributes ...
> Hth,
> Dscho
>   
-- 

best regards

  Ray

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