Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git

Martin Langhoff wrote:

On 7/14/07, Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] wrote:

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Incidentally, now that cvs2svn 2.0.0 is nearly out, I am thinking about
what it would take to write some other back ends for cvs2svn--turning
it, essentially, into cvs2xxx.  Most of the work that cvs2svn does is
inferring the most plausible history of the repository from CVS's
sketchy, incomplete, idiomatic, and often corrupt data.  This work
should also be useful for a cvs2git or cvs2hg or cvs2baz or ...

Great to hear that. I'm game if we can do something in this direction
- surely we can make it talk to fastimport ;-)

We added some hooks to cvs2svn 2.0 to start working in this direction.
But I don't really know what information is needed for a git import.
One quick-and-dirty idea that I had was to have cvs2svn output
information compatible with cvsps's output, as I believe that several
tools rely on cvsps to do the dirty work and so could perhaps be
persuaded to use cvs2svn out of the box.

Does cvs2svn handle incremental imports, remembering any "guesses"
taken earlier? Last time I looked at it, it had far better logic than
cvsps, but it didn't do incremental imports, and repeated imports done
at different times would "guess" different branching points for new
branches, so it _really_ didn't support incrementals

That's correct; cvs2svn does not support incremental conversion at all
(at least not yet).

Michael