Re: Moving to git

So it would appear that there are some motivated people here with more
experience than I. Is it feasible to take the source tree as it is an
migrate it to github, or a personal git repo at git.postgresql.org
then clone it to the pgjdbc git repo once the migration has been
verified ?

Dave Cramer

dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca

2011/10/4 Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> 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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