Hi Linus,
I wanted to be able to track CVS repositories in a GIT repository. The cvs2git program worked fine with the initial import but needed a tiny modification to enable me to resync the GIT repository with the updated CVS tree.
With friendly regards, Takis
Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@lumumba.luc.ac.be> ---
Show changes to cvs2git.c +20 −7
diff --git a/cvs2git.c b/cvs2git.c --- a/cvs2git.c +++ b/cvs2git.c @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #include <unistd.h> static int verbose = 0; +static int updating = 0; /* * This is a really stupid program that takes cvsps output, and @@ -28,11 +29,17 @@ static int verbose = 0; * Usage: * * TZ=UTC cvsps -A | - * cvs2git --cvsroot=[root] --module=[module] > script + * git-cvs2git --cvsroot=[root] --module=[module] > script * * Creates a shell script that will generate the .git archive of * the names CVS repository. * + * TZ=UTC cvsps -s 1234- -A | + * git-cvs2git -u --cvsroot=[root] --module=[module] > script + * + * Creates a shell script that will update the .git archive with + * CVS changes from patchset 1234 until the last one. + * * IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT "cvsps"! This requires version 2.1 or better, * and the "TZ=UTC" and the "-A" flag is required for sane results! */ @@ -113,7 +120,7 @@ static void prepare_commit(void) static void commit(void) { - const char *cmit_parent = initial_commit ? "" : "-p HEAD"; + const char *cmit_parent = (initial_commit && !updating) ? "" : "-p HEAD"; const char *dst_branch; char *space; int i; @@ -230,6 +237,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) verbose = 1; continue; } + if (!strcmp(arg, "-u")) { + updating = 1; + continue; + } } @@ -241,11 +252,13 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) exit(1); } - printf("[ -d .git ] && exit 1\n"); - printf("git-init-db\n"); - printf("mkdir -p .git/refs/heads\n"); - printf("mkdir -p .git/refs/tags\n"); - printf("ln -sf refs/heads/master .git/HEAD\n"); + if (!updating) { + printf("[ -d .git ] && exit 1\n"); + printf("git-init-db\n"); + printf("mkdir -p .git/refs/heads\n"); + printf("mkdir -p .git/refs/tags\n"); + printf("ln -sf refs/heads/master .git/HEAD\n"); + } while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin) != NULL) { int linelen = strlen(line);