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From: "Adam Mercer" <ramercer@gmail.com>
To: "Craig L. Ching" <cching@mqsoftware.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git cvsimport error
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:24:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <799406d60805231324o209692d2o59a700024e52100c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F794301FC8BCA@emailmn.mqsoftware.com>

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Craig L. Ching <cching@mqsoftware.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I don't know much about it at all, but my advice would be to run
> cvsps by itself and generate a cache that git-fast-import can import.
> That's the approach we're taking because it gives us a chance to figure
> out where things have gone wrong as we have some bad, buggy commits in
> our archive (CVS created the bad commits).

I thought of using git-fast-import but the problem is that the CVS
repository is still in use so I need to keep the git and CVS repos
synchronised and it seems like git-fast-import can't be used in this
case.

Cheers

Adam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-23 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-21 19:14 git cvsimport error Adam Mercer
2008-05-21 19:39 ` Adam Mercer
2008-05-21 19:51   ` Craig L. Ching
2008-05-23 20:01     ` Adam Mercer
     [not found]     ` <799406d60805231301l1ff158b7k73bb193c472a8211@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F794301FC8BCA@emailmn.mqsoftware.com>
2008-05-23 20:24         ` Adam Mercer [this message]
2008-05-23 20:30           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-24  5:23             ` Adam Mercer

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