From: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Ilya Basin <basinilya@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:43:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <516C665D.2060204@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1762779000.20130415215818@gmail.com>
Ilya Basin wrote:
> Does this --fast-export thing support what John mentioned, the
> "incremental import support"? Does 'git fast-import' has it?
> I need it, because full import takes too long.
>
> The central repo of my employer is CVS, other people commit to it and
> I use git internally to be able to tidy my commit history before
> exporting to CVS.
Errr... the need to interact with *live* CVS repository is reason
behind wanting incremental import, isn't it?
I wonder how hard would be to create a remote helper for CVS, so that
one could treat CVS repository as foreign remote, fetching from it and
pushing to it...
BTW. can you convince your employer to move to more modern version
control system (be it Subversion, Kiln Harmony, Veracity, Bazaar,
Mercurial or Git) rather than rely on system which had last release in
2008 i.e. 4 years ago, doesn't support atomic commits, doesn't support
versioning of whole repository aka. changesets (beside tags), has slow
and complicated branching and even more complicated merging, etc.?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/802573/difference-between-git-and-cvs/824241#824241
--
Jakub Narębski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-15 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-14 8:18 cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc Ilya Basin
2013-04-14 8:48 ` Ilya Basin
2013-04-14 9:47 ` John Keeping
2013-04-14 11:33 ` State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc) Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-15 5:00 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-04-15 17:58 ` Ilya Basin
2013-04-15 20:43 ` Jakub Narębski [this message]
2013-04-18 9:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-19 5:29 ` Does git fast-import support deltas? Ilya Basin
2013-04-19 5:44 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-04-19 6:13 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-20 10:22 ` Re[2]: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc) Ilya Basin
2013-04-23 17:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-23 18:30 ` Re[2]: " Ilya Basin
2013-04-23 21:06 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-04-24 4:47 ` Re[2]: " Ilya Basin
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