From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Git over cvs Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:07:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4B0C12CA.4060203@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 24 18:08:39 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 1NCysX-0006aE-15 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:08:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933624AbZKXRIZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:08:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933561AbZKXRIZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:08:25 -0500 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:45821 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932859AbZKXRIY (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:08:24 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1748C1EA1 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:08:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:08:30 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=3XJwv8zQSuWN9O5s0Y1jAeO0bMk=; b=sWowFVgfaJGqkreANrdrStC8ydSz4G/hqaWXPlclQ9yuf5EtOmab6h2ow4AQlhmu1xdkE0vq8M76bT4TG0amJzCYdqg3tYguURrXk83ZgSi3ICoAw2uYrXKYhlQ9Lbsojp2OsUTE6UjFwyXwTe57JI2/bb300xDA3sR7sL8UnYM= X-Sasl-enc: YWUTCVsDRghXqnpkmZxqkMKflPpyjO/itderg+wN6nIc 1259082507 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.12]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 17A6CCEAE for ; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:08:26 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6pre) Gecko/20091121 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0.1pre Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi there, I got so annoyed by (my own incompetence using) cvs on mozdev that I got myself to use git cvsimport/cvsexportcommit now, just shortly before it gets obsoleted by the new shiny remote helpers, and knowing how many failing tests we have for it now. Setting up a convenient roundtrip with minimal exposure to cvs required collecting some scattered info. I thought this makes a good first blog entry (the one after the zeroth) for reference, so in case anyone is interested: http://grubix.blogspot.com/2009/11/git-over-cvs.html I guess it does require some acquaintance with Git, that's intentional. (In short it uses the combined work tree, -W approach.) Cheers, Michael P.S.: There's AdSense on there. I assume you block it anyway using NoScript, AdBlock etc. if you don't like it.