From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: [cvsimport] Import CVS repository from a specified date or branch name Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:10:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4AE160BC.5000608@vipco.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Klaus =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6del?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 23 22:10:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N1QSy-0005r7-Dy for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:10:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753159AbZJWUKI convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:10:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753122AbZJWUKI (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:10:08 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:37726 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753111AbZJWUKG (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:10:06 -0400 Received: from mail01.m-online.net (mail.m-online.net [192.168.3.149]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5ACF1C1579F; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:10:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan2.mnet-online.de [192.168.1.215]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF289021B; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:10:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.3.149]) by localhost (dynscan2.mnet-online.de [192.168.1.215]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id v+TXgt6ztRCj; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:10:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from igel.home (DSL01.83.171.152.41.ip-pool.NEFkom.net [83.171.152.41]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:10:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id DA9D310C4CB; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:10:08 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: I'm EMOTIONAL now because I have MERCHANDISING CLOUT!! In-Reply-To: <4AE160BC.5000608@vipco.de> ("Klaus =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6del=22's?= message of "Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:52:28 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Klaus R=C3=B6del writes: > I have a very large and old (serveral years) cvs repository and I wan= t to > import this in git. > For my work it is not nessecary to import all the revision history fr= om > the cvs repository. > It is engough to import only the revisions from a specified date or b= ranch > 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. =46rom cvsps --help: -d -d if just one date specified, show revisions newer than date1. If two dates specified, show revisions between two dates. -b restrict output to patch sets affecting history of branch Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4= ED5 "And now for something completely different."