Re: GIT-CVS sync script

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> Hi, Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
> 
> > I find the included script useful to easily track a CVS repository in
> > GIT. You can both call it for the initial import and ofcourse for the
> > subsequent resynchronisation with the parent CVS repository (that's what
> > the script's about).
> > 
> Hmm, my Perl script (just posted...) should do the same thing without
> depending on .git* files which may or may not still exist when you do an
> incremental import half a year later.
> 
> Can you test whether that script works for you?

Please do. I'm not proud of my horrid cvs2git thing, and if just one other
user reports "it works for me" I'll happily replace that piece of cr*p
with Matthias' version that looks much nicer (but not being a perl user I
can't judge it any other way than having others say "yeah, that works for
me").

			Linus