Re: cvsimport: trying to convert freebsd cvs to git

["Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On Dec 24, 2007 6:29 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:18:01PM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:
>
> > then i tried:
> >
> > $ time git cvsimport -d `pwd`/cvs -C src.git src
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/vmiklos/git/freebsd/src.git/.git/
> > malformed revision
>
> This is the actual error; everything else is git-cvsimport failing to
> notice the problem and continuing anyway.
>
> I will take a look and see if it is simple to stop the process here and
> produce a better error message.

Indeed. Running verbose will name the branch name that triggers that
error. One thing I find useful is to capture the commandline passed to
cvsps (using ps), stopping cvsimport+cvsps, and running cvsps by hand
with the same commandline (remember to set TZ=UTC in the
environment!), saving STDOUT to a file.

Once you have the file, you can feed it to cvsimport with the -P
parameter (IIRC). Usually cvsimport errors are all about wonky cvsps
output.

For the record, I normally do my initial imports with Keith's
parsecvs, and then run incrementals using git-cvsimport. These
incrementals aren't 100% perfect, so I routinely check for 'drift'.

cheers,


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