From: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Subject: [PATCH] cvsexportcommit: add some examples to the documentation
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:29:01 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1138602541556-git-send-email-martin@catalyst.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To:
Updated with Randall Schwartz's suggestion
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
---
Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
69c980351a6d74d033a8d70fb37970c71ff8e855
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt
index 13cbf3b..e2540fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsexportcommit.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Exports a commit from GIT to a CVS check
to merge patches from a git repository into a CVS repository.
Execute it from the root of the CVS working copy. GIT_DIR must be defined.
+See examples below.
It does its best to do the safe thing, it will check that the files are
unchanged and up to date in the CVS checkout, and it will not autocommit
@@ -41,6 +42,26 @@ OPTIONS
-v::
Verbose.
+EXAMPLES
+--------
+
+Merge one patch into CVS::
++
+------------
+$ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git
+$ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout
+$ git-cvsexportcommit -v <commit-sha1>
+$ cvs commit -F .mgs <files>
+------------
+
+Merge pending patches into CVS automatically -- only if you really know what you are doing ::
++
+------------
+$ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git
+$ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout
+$ git-cherry cvshead myhead | sed 's/^+ //p' | xargs -l1 git-cvsexportcommit -c -p -v
+------------
+
Author
------
Written by Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
--
1.1.6.g170f-dirty
next reply other threads:[~2006-01-30 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-30 6:29 Martin Langhoff [this message]
2006-01-30 6:30 ` [PATCH] cvsexportcommit: add some examples to the documentation Randal L. Schwartz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-30 6:34 Martin Langhoff
2006-01-30 7:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-30 6:12 Martin Langhoff
2006-01-30 6:25 ` Randal L. Schwartz
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