From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Klaus Rödel" <klaus.roedel@vipco.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [cvsimport] Import CVS repository from a specified date or branch name
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:10:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2k4ylq3bz.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE160BC.5000608@vipco.de> ("Klaus Rödel"'s message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:52:28 +0200")
Klaus Rödel <klaus.roedel@vipco.de> writes:
> I have a very large and old (serveral years) cvs repository and I want to
> import this in git.
> For my work it is not nessecary to import all the revision history from
> the cvs repository.
> It is engough to import only the revisions from a specified date or branch
> name of the cvs repo.
>
> Is this possible with git-cvsimport?
> If yes, how?
You may be able to do that by passing the right arguments to cvsps.
From cvsps --help:
-d <date1> -d <date2> if just one date specified, show
revisions newer than date1. If two dates specified,
show revisions between two dates.
-b <branch> restrict output to patch sets affecting history of branch
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-23 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-23 7:52 [cvsimport] Import CVS repository from a specified date or branch name Klaus Rödel
2009-10-23 20:10 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-10-23 21:38 ` Nick Woolley
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