Re: help with cvsimport

[Raimund Bauer <ray007@gmx.net>]

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
>   
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best regards

  Ray