Re: [PATCH] cvsimport: rewritten in Perl

[Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>]

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Hi,

Sven Verdoolaege:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:10:43PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > I'll find it. However, you don't actually need to re-import your
> > existing CVS->GIT trees; as long as the dates and the branch names
> > match, my script will continue where the other left off.
> 
> That seems to work, once I figured out I had to pass in the "-o master"
> option (as cvs2git didn't create an "origin" branch).
> 
Yes -- that's intentional, as the "master" branch is the one you're
going to add your own work to once the improt is finished. Using
"master" as CVS HEAD would mean that incremental imports no longer work.

> If you don't, you get a rather cryptic message:
> usage: git-read-tree (<sha> | -m [-u] <sha1> [<sha2> [<sha3>]])
> read-tree failed: 256
> 
> You probably want to check whether the origin branch actually
> exists.
> 
I'll add that, thanks.

> Apparently you also need to pass the '-x' option to cvsps.
> Otherwise, it won't look at anything new.
> 
Ditto.

> It would also be nice if the user could pass extra options
> to cvsps (notably '-z').
> 
Ditto.  ;-)

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