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From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
To: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:15:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <469FB84B.2010909@fs.ei.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707131541140.11423@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

Julian Phillips wrote:
> Has anyone managed to succssfully import a Subversion repository that 
> was initially imported from CVS using cvs2svn using fast-import?
> 
> It looks like cvs2svn has created a rather big mess.   It has created 
> single commits that change files in more than one branch and/or tag. It 
> also creates tags using more than one commit.  Now I come to try and 
> import the Subversion history into git and I'm having trouble creating a 
> sensible stream to feed into fast-import.

Did you try first converting the old CVS repo to git and then adding the svn changes?  That might give you much better results.

cheers
  simon

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-19 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-13 14:48 CVS -> SVN -> Git Julian Phillips
2007-07-13 23:03 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-14  5:30   ` Martin Langhoff
2007-07-14 17:09     ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-14 17:32       ` Chris Shoemaker
2007-07-14 20:01         ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-14 18:14       ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-07-15  2:22         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-14 19:52       ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-07-14 20:58         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-14 21:50         ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2007-07-14 22:19         ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-14 22:44           ` Karl Fogel
2007-07-14 23:23           ` David Frech
2007-07-15  2:30             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-07-15 11:48             ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-16  1:08               ` Martin Langhoff
2007-07-16  1:13                 ` Julian Phillips
2007-07-16  1:30                 ` Karl Fogel
2007-07-15  1:39           ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-07-15 12:04             ` Michael Haggerty
2007-07-15 13:36               ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-07-16  1:05             ` Martin Langhoff
2007-07-19 12:02               ` Markus Schiltknecht
2007-07-20  3:51                 ` Karl Fogel
2007-07-19 19:14               ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-20  8:45                 ` Markus Schiltknecht
2007-07-15 23:09       ` Scott Lamb
2007-07-19 19:18     ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-19 19:15 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert [this message]
2007-07-20  5:58   ` Julian Phillips

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