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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: files missing after converting a cvs repository to git
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:46:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EB3E06.70100@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gcfcrg$ubc$1@ger.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> cvs2svn is apparently quite good at getting even the weirdest history
>> right. Perhaps you can try that and then running "git svn" on the
>> resulting svn repo?
> 
> cvs2svn has git output now (I think it is actually fast-import output)

Correct.  See http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html for more info.  I
suggest using the trunk version of cvs2svn for conversions to git.

Please note, however, that cvs2svn can only handle one-time conversions
(i.e., not tracking a live CVS repository incrementally).

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-06 22:02 files missing after converting a cvs repository to git Adam Mercer
2008-10-07  6:08 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-07 10:15   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-07 10:46     ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2008-10-07 15:58       ` Adam Mercer
2008-10-07 15:55   ` Adam Mercer
2008-10-08  6:16     ` Andreas Ericsson

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