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From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
To: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using subversion tools on Mozilla CVS
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 11:20:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP08068F9BD23CF4FA8A1BDBAE970@CEZ.ICE> (raw)
Message-ID: <20060604112029.cb3405ab.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606032009p252ff5fai7401401427ae3ec3@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 23:09:00 -0400
"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:

> I found this tool written in Python for importing CVS into Subversion.
> It seems to be handling the Mozilla CVS repository with fewer problems
> than parsecvs.
> 
> http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2svn.html
> 
> Since I'm not a native Python speaker, anyone else want to give a try
> at changing it to support git?
 
Hi Jon,

If you haven't tried to import into git with a recent version of
git-cvsimport, it would be worth a shot.

As for the tool you've referenced above, it does look pretty good.
It makes multiple passes and saves to a temp file after each, letting
you resume from that point and means it can use less memory overall.

It can produce a pretty straight forward looking dump file if you
pass it the "--dump-only" option, rather than it pushing the results
into svn; for instance:

 $ cvs2svn --dump-only --dumpfile DUMPFILE <cvs directory>

It shouldn't be too hard to write a script that imports the revisions
found in the resulting DUMPFILE into git.

Sean

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-04 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-04  3:09 Using subversion tools on Mozilla CVS Jon Smirl
     [not found] ` <20060604112029.cb3405ab.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-06-04 15:20   ` Sean [this message]
2006-06-04 15:48     ` Jon Smirl

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