From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Problem with git-cvsimport Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:44:48 +0100 Message-ID: <200710302244.50034.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <470B491F.9020306@jentro.com> <170fa0d20710301306o6b3798f9k72615eb811d871f2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Michael Haggerty" , "Eyvind Bernhardsen" , "Thomas Pasch" , git@vger.kernel.org, "Jan Wielemaker" , "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" , dev To: "Mike Snitzer" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 30 22:42:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Imyr7-0001sV-Jw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:42:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753002AbXJ3Vm1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:42:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753821AbXJ3Vm1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:42:27 -0400 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:15471 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753196AbXJ3Vm0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:42:26 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB504A149BD; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:33:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02819-02; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:33:33 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.9.0.10] (unknown [10.9.0.10]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAF18026CE; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:33:33 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: <170fa0d20710301306o6b3798f9k72615eb811d871f2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: tisdag 30 oktober 2007 skrev Mike Snitzer: > On 10/10/07, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote: > ... > > > > Thanks for making cvs2svn the best CVS-to-git conversion tool :) Now > > if it would only support incremental importing... > > Michael, > > I second this question: is there any chance incremental importing will > be implemented in cvs2svn? > > I've not used cvs2svn much and when I did it was for svn not git; but > given that git-cvsimport is known to mess up your git repo (as Eyvind > pointed out earlier) there doesn't appear to be any reliable tools to > allow for incrementally importing from cvs to git. > > Are others using a tool for reliably importing from cvs to git? I use fromcvs which is *very* fast, and quite memory conservative compared to the others and seems reliable so far (six months). It probably breaks on exotic variants of branches though, but I don't have those / don't care about them. Do not push into the same repo fromcvs works on. I don't understand why, but I pushed once and *poof* the conversion went bad. Drawbacks, more dependencies and access to the rcs files is required and tags are not converted. -- robin