Re: gitweb wishlist

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

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On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:50 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, btw, I notice that you moved klibc over to git - care to share your
> > cvs->git script (I assume you scripted it ;)? That would seem to be an 
> > obvious addition to the core stuff..
> > 
> 
> Actually, Kay did the conversion... the scripts are clearly very 
> cantankerous, because if *I* run them -- I tried -- they don't work! 
> Since it's Kay's work, I'll leave them to him, but I would definitely 
> love to move more of my CVS repos over to git, especially syslinux.

Here we go;

These scripts are just a quick hack, I just wanted to know how nice the
stupid cvs file history can be converted to git-committs.

It exports the CVS repo with the help of the nice cvsps to individual
patches. (Every patch contains something like a "ChangeSet" by searching
for file revisions with the same checkin-date)

Then the patches with the header are split into individual files for
committing it into git (similar to Linus' git-mbox-tools).

If we reach a CVS tag with a patch during sequential patching, the
script throws away the whole current working tree and checks the
revision out of CVS. This way we make sure, that the git-tag matches
tree CVS has tagged. (I've encountered two mismatches in the
"patch-chain" with the CVS revision-tag. These corrections are hardcoded
into the script. :)

For every CVS revision-tag a git-tag without any content except the name
is created.

And the klibc-repo was created with a patched git-commit to fake the
commit date with the author date. :)

Good luck with it,
Kay

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