Re: cvs2git and file permissions

[Sven Verdoolaege <Sven.Verdoolaege@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:23:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
> > 
> > Let cvs checkout in a temporary directory rather than
> > using the pipe option to avoid loss of mode information.
> 
> Hmm.. Why do you use the "-N" flag?

I didn't quite know how to interpret the "as short as possible" in

              Use the -d dir option to create a directory  called
              dir  for  the  working  files, instead of using the
              module name.  Unless you also  use  -N,  the  paths
              created under dir will be as short as possible.

It would appear you do.

> Wouldn't it be much cleaner to _not_ create all those sub-directories 
> under ".git-tmp", and instead do something like
> 
> 	"cvs -q -d %s checkout -d .git-tmp -r%s '%s/%s'" ...
> 	"mv -f .git-tmp/%s %s\n", dir ? dir+1 : name, name
> 
> With that changed (and tested ;), I'll happily take it.

Seems to work.

The rm is still needed though.  Without it, cvs can get confused.

skimo
--
git-cvs2git: propagate mode information

Let cvs checkout in a temporary directory rather than
using the pipe option to avoid loss of mode information.

Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@liacs.nl>

---
commit 188ea2ee70413147fc1b80fedc3fbee02843e590
tree f122fcf591013aff299a4d072eed47255892d3a1
parent fdf95bf8d4d1182db579bd25fe5e25811084eaa6
author Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:55:49 +0200
committer Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:55:49 +0200

 cvs2git.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cvs2git.c b/cvs2git.c
--- a/cvs2git.c
+++ b/cvs2git.c
@@ -199,7 +199,10 @@ static void update_file(char *line)
 	if (dir)
 		printf("mkdir -p %.*s\n", (int)(dir - name), name);
 
-	printf("cvs -q -d %s checkout -r%s -p '%s/%s' > '%s'\n", cvsroot, version, cvsmodule, name, name);
+	printf("cvs -q -d %s checkout -d .git-tmp -r%s '%s/%s'\n", 
+		cvsroot, version, cvsmodule, name);
+	printf("mv -f .git-tmp/%s %s\n", dir ? dir+1 : name, name);
+	printf("rm -rf .git-tmp\n");
 	printf("git-update-cache --add -- '%s'\n", name);
 }