From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Woolley Subject: Re: [cvsimport] Import CVS repository from a specified date or branch name Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:38:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4AE22251.7060901@yahoo.co.uk> References: <4AE160BC.5000608@vipco.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Klaus_R=F6del?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 24 00:12:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N1SMe-0007eD-03 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:12:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751604AbZJWWLw convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:11:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751504AbZJWWLw (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:11:52 -0400 Received: from udon.noodlefactory.co.uk ([80.68.88.167]:48430 "EHLO udon.noodlefactory.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751400AbZJWWLv (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:11:51 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2010 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:11:51 EDT Received: from 87-194-154-6.bethere.co.uk ([87.194.154.6] helo=[192.168.0.100]) by udon.noodlefactory.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1N1Rq5-000732-62; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:38:25 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) In-Reply-To: <4AE160BC.5000608@vipco.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Klaus R=F6del wrote: > I have a very large and old (serveral years) cvs repository and I wan= t > to import this in git. > For my work it is not nessecary to import all the revision history fr= om > the cvs repository. > It is engough to import only the revisions from a specified date or > branch name of the cvs repo. >=20 > Is this possible with git-cvsimport? I'm not certain if it is possible, if it is I suspect it might require = invoking cvsps first and then reading in the output generated with git-cvsimport= , as Andreas implies. In any case, the underlying cvsps program is flawed, and in it's curre= nt form, although it seems to work ok for simple situations, I know for a fact t= hat didn't faithfully reproduce a rather big old CVS repository I tried it = on. So if you're planning on just importing once, and don't need incremental impo= rts, from my experience I'd suggest you'd fare better using cvs2git: http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html Cheers, N