Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

Julian Phillips wrote:

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 Has anyone managed to succssfully import a Subversion repository that was
 initially imported from CVS using cvs2svn using fast-import?

 It looks like cvs2svn has created a rather big mess.   It has created
 single commits that change files in more than one branch and/or tag. It
 also creates tags using more than one commit.  Now I come to try and
 import the Subversion history into git and I'm having trouble creating a
 sensible stream to feed into fast-import.

Did you try first converting the old CVS repo to git and then adding the svn 
changes?  That might give you much better results.

I thought about it, but there are over 20000 commits sitting on top of the 
converted history referring back to it - I'm not convinced that I could 
stitch things back together properly, the svn history now really does 
rely on the import done by cvs2svn.  (btw, I blame CVS for the mess not 
cvs2svn, we should have switched _before_ we started using branches 
heavily ...)

The problem really is that we use branching like it's going out of 
fashion.  We have thousands now, and had at least 10s if not 100s by the 
time we gave up on CVS.  Similarly with tags.

I think I've managed to get things sorted now with fast-import ... just 
need to be able to copy blobs from other commits and I think I'll be done. 
It really is a nice tool.

-- 
Julian

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