Pointers to CVS 2 GIT imports and gateways

Pointers to CVS 2 GIT imports and gateways

[Martin Langhoff]

I am looking into importing a cvs repo HEAD history into git using
cvsps. I read throught the thread where Ingo discussed his import of
the kernel sources, but I couldn't find any pointers to what kind of
shell magic or other associated scripts were used, and google hasn't
helped much either.

How do I feed the patchsets into GIT preserving commit msgs and other metadata?

A related question follows: is anyone running git -> cvs gateways, and how? 

pointers to TFM will be much appreciated ;)

cheers,


martin

Re: Pointers to CVS 2 GIT imports and gateways

[H. Peter Anvin]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> 
> A related question follows: is anyone running git -> cvs gateways, and how? 
> 

What would be the point?  The reason for bkcvs was that bk wasn't 
available to everyone.

	-hpa

Re: Pointers to CVS 2 GIT imports and gateways

[Martin Langhoff]

On 5/9/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> What would be the point?  The reason for bkcvs was that bk wasn't
> available to everyone.

Ease of transition for other automated tasks, perhaps? I don't know
what bits and pieces of infrastructure hang from the old BK-CVS
changeset distribution infrastructure.

Some projects do count on CVS gateways even if they use smarter SCMs.
This is not just because of licensing issues -- sometimes portability
and preexisting tools trump SCM changes.

regards,


martin

Re: Pointers to CVS 2 GIT imports and gateways

[H. Peter Anvin]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> 
> Ease of transition for other automated tasks, perhaps? I don't know
> what bits and pieces of infrastructure hang from the old BK-CVS
> changeset distribution infrastructure.
> 

None.  That was all owned by Bitmover.

	-hpa