From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Efficient way to import snapshots?
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:22:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8lkre$cme$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LFD.0.999.0707301144180.4161@woody.linux-foundation.org
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Craig Boston wrote:
>>
>> So far the main snag I've found is that AFAIK there's no equivalent to
>> "svk import" to load a big tree (~37000 files) into a branch and commit
>> the changes. Here's the procedure I've come up with:
>>
>> cd /path/to/git/repo
>> git checkout vendor_branch_X
>> git rm -r .
>> cp -R /path/to/cvs/checkout_X/* ./
>> git add .
>> git commit -m"Import yyyymmdd snapshot"
>
> Ouch.
>
> What you want to do should fit git very well, but doing it that way is
> quite expensive.
>
> Might I suggest just doing the .git thing *directly* in the CVS checkout
> instead?
[...]
And you can try to use git-fast-import. Check out
contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl script (adapting it to your purpose).
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-30 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-30 18:07 Efficient way to import snapshots? Craig Boston
2007-07-30 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-30 19:29 ` Craig Boston
2007-07-30 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-30 20:10 ` Craig Boston
2007-07-30 21:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-30 21:49 ` Craig Boston
2007-07-30 21:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-30 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-30 21:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-30 23:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-30 23:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-31 0:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-31 0:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-30 22:20 ` Craig Boston
2007-07-30 23:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-31 1:17 ` Craig Boston
2007-07-31 1:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-31 4:23 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-31 13:53 ` Craig Boston
2007-07-31 15:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-31 16:15 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-31 6:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-31 7:54 ` Florian Weimer
2007-07-31 8:48 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-30 21:22 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2007-07-30 21:54 ` David Kastrup
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