From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Comparison of CVS and Git (was: Re: Migration from CVS to GIT) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <1308733591425-6503493.post@n2.nabble.com> <4E01CAD5.8080808@alum.mit.edu> <1308808706969-6507269.post@n2.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Narebski To: sandy2010 X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 23 10:12:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QZf1J-00058X-3O for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:12:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754436Ab1FWIME (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:12:04 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:63695 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751486Ab1FWIMC (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:12:02 -0400 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so1119066fxm.19 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:12:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=SBX+U4x2pgWlghrpVkjN6h5vN7O1QHtwPWJ+w2+GOQM=; b=ON9WqSNLgbl166+xv5WawjobdgPSjnEssnosDLKKStary+g3bschtQjBHoqOJjX8Ug 0Rq250X0D8QcKFGOIF5G9aWecRMOakCNptobHK0CV/NGfYo3BQ6yri8dE0uAarLYLIgZ A4y5plTO42+QEwLvS/59SEajsgg7+kX8xpIkM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:date :in-reply-to:message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=TsK6KzAy6sA0pkzq4YvERPPsNd0JlVsKFhY7vB2j6JWR6qrupJ5SuccMYxim3thQUR 7+LyRRxb9UXKCso04bEkNjhLVK2r2Ly8pELXP+lMpjv9FGi2DmOYnniOs0MTh+Agoslr XKPk3f5ZrOpCUEkKirf7dKK9qsr9SsUuDK3io= Received: by 10.223.5.13 with SMTP id 13mr2290035fat.1.1308816720913; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abva28.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.198.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w15sm816464faj.47.2011.06.23.01.11.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p5N8BPO8007347; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:11:36 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id p5N8BAMc007342; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:11:10 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: <1308808706969-6507269.post@n2.nabble.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: sandy2010 writes: > Thanks Michael! This worked like a charm! I was not aware that we can do such > things in CVS. Can you point me to some good docs/articles on such > comparison of CVS and Git? A bit of self-promotion: "Difference between GIT and CVS" on StackOverflow (my answer) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/802573/difference-between-git-and-cvs/824241#824241 A blog post I recently found, describing how the workflow changed rather that the differences between Git and CVS: "From CVS to Git, 9 Things I\u2019ve Learned" on EclipseSource blog http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2011/06/09/git-lessons-learned/ This article describes how Git could came into being, IMHO quite well presenting Git philosophy as well: "The Git Parable" by Tom Preston-Werner (of GitHub) http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html And just FYI, another tool to convert CVS to Git (non-incremental): http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git