interaction between cvsimport and cvsexportcommit

interaction between cvsimport and cvsexportcommit

[picca]

Hello

In the institut where I am working www.synchrotron-soleil.fr, the
"computing department" use CVS for all their projects. As I am not from
this department (I am a scientist), I can use my own tools and git is
one of them.
Nevertheless I need to interact with them (I am writting a C++
library to control diffractometers) so I use cvsimport and
cvsexportcommit.

The point is that I find this over complicate compare to my git
day-to-day experience.

I do not understand why cvsimport and cvsexportcommit do not
interact nicelly to ease git <-> cvs.
For example as a neeby I expect this to work out of the box
after the first cvsimport

git cvsimport
do some work
git commit -a
git cvsexportcommit

and that's all

Instead of this we have this:

$ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git
$ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout
$ git-cvsexportcommit -v <commit-sha1>
$ cvs commit -F .mgs <files>

or even worse

$ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git
$ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout
$ git-cherry cvshead myhead | sed -n 's/^+ //p' | xargs -l1
git-cvsexportcommit -c -p -v


what is missing in cvsexportcommit and cvsimport to lower the git <->
cvs barrier.

Thank you.

Frederic

PS: Sorry for my poor english.

Re: interaction between cvsimport and cvsexportcommit

[Robin Rosenberg]

fredag 08 juni 2007 skrev picca:
> Hello
> 
> In the institut where I am working www.synchrotron-soleil.fr, the
> "computing department" use CVS for all their projects. As I am not from
> this department (I am a scientist), I can use my own tools and git is
> one of them.
> Nevertheless I need to interact with them (I am writting a C++
> library to control diffractometers) so I use cvsimport and
> cvsexportcommit.
> 
> The point is that I find this over complicate compare to my git
> day-to-day experience.
> 
> I do not understand why cvsimport and cvsexportcommit do not
> interact nicelly to ease git <-> cvs.

git-cvsexportcommit was written (I assume, since I did not actually write the
original version) to solve a problem and not to be a perfect solution. 

Later I found it didn't do what I needed so I made improvements (to solve /my/ 
problems, mainly in reliability and completeness (binaries, add remove, all 
or nothing). The rest was just inconvenience and I did not consider my 
solution to that universally viable so I didn't include it in in 
cvsexportcommit. 

> For example as a neeby I expect this to work out of the box
> after the first cvsimport
>
> git cvsimport
> do some work
> git commit -a
> git cvsexportcommit

This assume you really want to export all. I don't, but I agree that it should
in principle be this simple. Patches anyone?

> and that's all
> 
> Instead of this we have this:
> 
> $ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git
> $ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout
> $ git-cvsexportcommit -v <commit-sha1>
> $ cvs commit -F .mgs <files>
> 
> or even worse
> 
> $ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git
> $ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout
> $ git-cherry cvshead myhead | sed -n 's/^+ //p' | xargs -l1
> git-cvsexportcommit -c -p -v

> 
> what is missing in cvsexportcommit and cvsimport to lower the git <->
> cvs barrier.

Here is my script that I use to export. It takes as arguments a number of 
commits or stgit patches. Note that hardcoded path to the CVS checkout...

Here's an exercise to the reader: Modify git-cvsexportcommit so it takes the 
path to the CVS checkout from 1) a parameter (e.g. -w /checkout) or 2) a git 
config variable. That will get get us a small step closer. It will be fairly 
easy.

Cheers
	-- robin

--------------------------8<-------------------------
#!/bin/bash -ex

if [ "$1" = "-p" ]
then
        P="-p $2"
        shift 2
fi
export GIT_DIR=$(git-rev-parse --git-dir)
GIT_DIR=$(cd $GIT_DIR;pwd)
cd ../Iris.CVSsynconly
for patch in "$@"
do
        if commit=$(git-rev-parse $patch 2>/dev/null); then
            git-cvsexportcommit-u $(echo $P) -c $commit
        else
            head=$(git-symbolic-ref HEAD)
            br=${head#refs/heads/}
            if commit=$(git-rev-parse refs/patches/$br/$patch); then
                git-cvsexportcommit -u $(echo $P) -c $commit
            fi
        fi
done