From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Cc: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
git@vger.kernel.org, users@cvs2svn.tigris.org
Subject: Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:43:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708021340450.8184@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65F1862F-4DF2-4A52-9FD5-20802AEACDAB@zib.de>
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>
> Right now, I'd prefer the import by parsecvs because of the
> simpler history. However, I don't know if I loose history
> information by doing so. I'd start by a run of cvs2svn to validate
> the overall structure of the CVS repository.
Well, once imported, you could just go through the branches and tags, and
just delete the ones you consider uninteresting, and then do a "git gc".
You'd want to re-pack after a fast-import anyway (regardless of the source
of the fast-import input), so maybe cvs2svn ends up giving you a bit
unnecessary info, but it should be easy enough to get rid of
after-the-fact.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-01 0:09 cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation Michael Haggerty
2007-08-01 0:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-01 22:09 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-02 16:58 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-02 23:44 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-02 8:49 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-02 17:23 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-02 19:22 ` Marko Macek
2007-08-02 23:59 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-05 7:58 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2007-08-02 17:35 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-08-02 19:13 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-02 19:29 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-08-02 20:21 ` Robin Rosenberg
[not found] ` <200708022221.13129.robin.rosenberg.lists-RgPrefM1rjDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-08-02 20:31 ` Lübbe Onken
2007-08-02 20:32 ` Lübbe Onken
2007-08-02 20:33 ` Lübbe Onken
2007-08-02 22:02 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-02 22:50 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-08-02 23:50 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-03 8:40 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-08-04 8:28 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-03 3:07 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-02 23:37 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-02 20:43 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-08-02 23:19 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-03 3:12 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-02 23:55 ` Jon Smirl
[not found] ` <8b65902a0708010438s24d16109k601b52c04cf9c066@mail.gmail.com>
2007-08-02 15:34 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-02 23:08 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-08-03 4:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-03 6:48 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-03 7:10 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-03 8:36 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-03 14:35 ` Patwardhan, Rajesh
2007-08-03 15:41 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-03 16:42 ` Patwardhan, Rajesh
2007-08-03 18:58 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-08-03 20:16 ` Jon Smirl
2007-08-03 20:27 ` Jon Smirl
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