cvs2git migration

cvs2git migration

[supadhyay]

Hi All,

I want to migrate my version control CVS to GIT. I have few links which
mentioned about how to migrate CVS repositories to GIT but there is no
description about how to migrate existing CVS users to GIT?

Can you please suggest me or forward me some links which mentioned about how
to migrate users as well.

Thanks in advance.


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Re: cvs2git migration

[supadhyay]

Hi All,

Can any one please update me what would be the method/steps to migrate
existing CVS users to GIT in CVS2GIT migration? User migration is possible
or not?

Thanks in advance...

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Re: cvs2git migration

[Kevin]

Hi,

Because git is distributed, it has no user management (which is
impossible to do). Every user adds his name and e-mail address to his
global .gitconfig file.

For access control, you can check gitolite [1].


[1]: http://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:33 PM, supadhyay <supadhyay@imany.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can any one please update me what would be the method/steps to migrate
> existing CVS users to GIT in CVS2GIT migration? User migration is possible
> or not?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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Re: cvs2git migration

[Kevin]

I see that you have already asked this question before on the mailing list

See http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/User-authentication-in-GIT-td7261349.html


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:33 PM, supadhyay <supadhyay@imany.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can any one please update me what would be the method/steps to migrate
> existing CVS users to GIT in CVS2GIT migration? User migration is possible
> or not?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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Re: cvs2git migration

[Holger Hellmuth]

On 14.02.2012 13:01, supadhyay wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to migrate my version control CVS to GIT. I have few links which
> mentioned about how to migrate CVS repositories to GIT but there is no
> description about how to migrate existing CVS users to GIT?

As far as I know CVS uses its own server called pserver. And the usual 
username and password combo for authentication.

if you want to use git with a central repository, you should use 
gitolite. And gitolite uses RSA or DSA keys that are not compatible with 
CVS passwords. You can't simply migrate the users to gitolite.

Every user has to generate and send the public half of that key 
(generated with ssh-keygen) to the administrator of that repository.

If you have problems authenticating all those users sending you public 
keys, let them check in the public keys into a specific path in one of 
the old CVS repositories. Then the administrator of the git repository 
can fetch them from the CVS (and check that the right user added the 
patch for his new key).