Re: Problem with git-cvsimport

tisdag 30 oktober 2007 skrev Mike Snitzer:

On 10/10/07, Eyvind Bernhardsen [off-list ref] wrote:
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quoted

Thanks for making cvs2svn the best CVS-to-git conversion tool :)  Now
if it would only support incremental importing...

Michael,

I second this question: is there any chance incremental importing will
be implemented in cvs2svn?

I've not used cvs2svn much and when I did it was for svn not git; but
given that git-cvsimport is known to mess up your git repo (as Eyvind
pointed out earlier) there doesn't appear to be any reliable tools to
allow for incrementally importing from cvs to git.

Are others using a tool for reliably importing from cvs to git?

I use fromcvs which is *very* fast, and quite memory conservative compared to 
the others and seems reliable so far (six months). It probably breaks on 
exotic variants of branches though, but I don't have those / don't care about 
them.

Do not push into the same repo fromcvs works on. I don't understand why, but I 
pushed once and *poof* the conversion went bad. 

Drawbacks, more dependencies and access to the rcs files is required and tags 
are not converted.

-- robin