From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sf Subject: Re: git-cvsimport doesn't quite work, wrt branches Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:37:40 +0200 Message-ID: <448FD8E4.9040208@b-i-t.de> References: <87irn5ovn6.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <1150224411.20536.79.camel@neko.keithp.com> <46a038f90606131555m7b1fa744g9770140c87598b7b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jun 14 11:38:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqRpC-0004TE-I1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:38:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932212AbWFNJiH (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:38:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932225AbWFNJiH (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:38:07 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50598 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932212AbWFNJiF (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:38:05 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FqRoz-0004QB-Kc for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:37:57 +0200 Received: from ip-213157015184.dialin.heagmedianet.de ([213.157.15.184]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:37:57 +0200 Received: from sf by ip-213157015184.dialin.heagmedianet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:37:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-213157015184.dialin.heagmedianet.de User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060606) In-Reply-To: <46a038f90606131555m7b1fa744g9770140c87598b7b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Martin Langhoff wrote: ... > Yes, cvsps is relying on the wrong things. I am looking at parsecvs > and the cvs2svn tool and wondering where to from here. ... > I am starting to look at what I can do with cvs2svn to get the import > into git. It seems to get very good patchsets, and it yields an easily > readable DB. I'll either learn Python, or read the DB from Perl > (probably from git-cvsimport). SVN has a portable format called "dumpfile" (see http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fs_dumprestore.txt) which is produced by "svnadmin dump ..." and "cvs2svn --dump-only ...". Why not use it as input for importing into git? Pros: - "svnadmin dump" should be fast - svn repositories can be tracked with "svnadmin dump" (just remember the last imported revision and restart from there) - cvs2svn seems to be very good at its job - only one tool needed Cons: - Both svnadmin and cvs2svn only work on local repositories - cvs2svn cannot be used for tracking Regards Stephan