Re: Moving to git

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Kjetil Nyg?rd wrote:
>> 1. cvsimport keeps the history. It will not be lost.
>
> My experience is that git-cvsimport does not work correctly.  Or at least
> it didn't without a patched version of cvsps.  Perhaps that's all been
> fixed up, but that's why it's important to do a verification that history
> has been accurately preserved rather than just publishing whatever results
> come out.
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2008-12/msg00124.php
>
> If anyone would like to work on the cvs to git conversion what I would
> like to see is a script/configuration file to invoke the conversion
> utility and then a script to do a comparison between any tag in cvs and
> the corresponding tag in the new git repository.

I also have bad experience with cvsimport - like getting
first commit wrong, problems with tags/branches.

Then I re-imported with cvs2git which worked perfectly,
no messing around was needed.

So I suggest you skip cvsimport and do the import with cvs2git.

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marko