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From: sf <sf@b-i-t.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport doesn't quite work, wrt branches
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:37:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <448FD8E4.9040208@b-i-t.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90606131555m7b1fa744g9770140c87598b7b@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff wrote:
...
> Yes, cvsps is relying on the wrong things. I am looking at parsecvs
> and the cvs2svn tool and wondering where to from here.
...
> I am starting to look at what I can do with cvs2svn to get the import
> into git. It seems to get very good patchsets, and it yields an easily
> readable DB. I'll either learn Python, or read the DB from Perl
> (probably from git-cvsimport).

SVN has a portable format called "dumpfile" (see
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fs_dumprestore.txt) which is
produced by "svnadmin dump ..." and "cvs2svn --dump-only ...".

Why not use it as input for importing into git?

Pros:
- "svnadmin dump" should be fast
- svn repositories can be tracked with "svnadmin dump" (just remember
the last imported revision and restart from there)
- cvs2svn seems to be very good at its job
- only one tool needed

Cons:
- Both svnadmin and cvs2svn only work on local repositories
- cvs2svn cannot be used for tracking

Regards
	Stephan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-14  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-13 16:41 git-cvsimport doesn't quite work, wrt branches Jim Meyering
2006-06-13 17:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-13 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-13 18:46   ` Keith Packard
2006-06-13 22:55     ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-13 23:30       ` Keith Packard
2006-06-14  1:56         ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-14  9:37       ` sf [this message]
2006-06-15  7:18     ` Yann Dirson
2006-06-13 21:13   ` Yann Dirson

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