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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Jvsrvcs <jvsrvcs@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git:  CVS to Git import
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:43:47 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3obwimdi1.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321053453892-6987037.post@n2.nabble.com>

Jvsrvcs <jvsrvcs@gmail.com> writes:

> Git:  CVS to Git import
> 
> We are moving from CVS to Git and want to know if anyone has had any
> experience there doing this and could share do's  / dont's, best practices
> when doing the initial import.
> 
> Also are there any known problems/bugs with the cvs to git import with
> regards to CVS history?

I think that Eric S Raymond "DVCS Migration Guide"

   http://www.catb.org/esr/dvcs-migration-guide.html

and reposurgeon tool (to clean up conversion artifacts)

   http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/

might help.

-- 
Jakub Narębski

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-11 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-11 23:17 Git: CVS to Git import Jvsrvcs
2011-11-11 23:43 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-11-12  0:24   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-14  2:44 ` Matthew Ogilvie

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