From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is the best way to convert a multi module CVS repository to git?
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:52:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100114205157.GA96135@book.hvoigt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100104155322.GC12195@atpcttvc.global-intra.net>
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 04:53:22PM +0100, Wolfgang.Liebich@siemens-enterprise.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I have inherited a rather big, old, multi-module CVS repository which I
> want to convert to GIT.
> Most of the CVS modules do belong to one project now, i.e. the
> separation into multiple modules is something of a historical accident
> now. This means it does not make sense to put each CVS module into an
> own GIT project and use submodules.
> Furthermore the conversion will be one-way, i.e. afterwards the CVS repo
> will be shutdown forever and moved to offline storage. Incremental
> conversion is therefore not an issue.
> If I need one day to convert everything (the repo is about 3GB), so be
> it - the most important feature to me is correctness (I do NOT want to
> have to run manual verifications for N days/weeks/months, just to verify
> that everything was converted), and ideally even the possibility of
> re-creating the history of files which were moved across directories
> (this HAS happened sometimes - I did not fiddle around with the RCS
> files, but used straight rm+add, and accepted the loss of history forced
> on me by CVS).
>
> What is the best (i.e. most trustworthy) method of conversion? For now
> it seems to me that cvs2git (the ...2git companion to cvs2svn) is the
> best choice (because it can handle multi-module projects in a sane way)
> - but I'm open to suggestions!
As far as I know cvs2git provides the technically most correct
conversion out there. Nevertheless I would suggest to try parsecvs. It
is kind of hard to set up but has a more intuitive heuristic for tags
although not strictly correct.
cheers Heiko
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2010-01-04 15:53 What is the best way to convert a multi module CVS repository to git? Wolfgang.Liebich
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