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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git:  CVS to Git import
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:24:26 -0600
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Hi,

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Jvsrvcs <jvsrvcs@gmail.com> writes:

>> Git:  CVS to Git import
>> 
>> We are moving from CVS to Git and want to know if anyone has had any
>> experience there doing this and could share do's  / dont's, best practices
>> when doing the initial import.
[...]
> I think that Eric S Raymond "DVCS Migration Guide"
>
>    http://www.catb.org/esr/dvcs-migration-guide.html

That page says that "git cvsimport" tends to be your best bet.  But my
experience is exactly the opposite --- git-cvsimport can make a lot of
mistakes, some of them documented in the ISSUES section of its
manpage, and it is hard to notice until later.

I've have good experiences using cvs2git from
<git://repo.or.cz/cvs2svn.git> (but note that it does not support
incremental imports).

> and reposurgeon tool (to clean up conversion artifacts)
>
>    http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/

Last time I checked, reposurgeon loads the entire history in memory.
For projects with a longer history, "git filter-branch" might be a
better fit.

By the way, thanks for writing.  If your experience results in some
ideas for improving Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt page, we'll
probably be happy to take them. :)

Good luck,
Jonathan