CVS to GIT

Brian Awood bawood at umich.edu
Mon Sep 13 11:18:00 EDT 2010


On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:34:02 +0200, "Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)"
<vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com> wrote:
> Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 
>> My other point, of course, was that since the PostgreSQL guys worked to
>> fix a couple of bugs in cvs2git over the past couple of weeks, you may
>> get a better result if you grab the tip version of cvs2git and re-run
>> the conversion.
>> 
> 
> If we were using cvs2git, sure! But we're not using cvs2git, we're using
> git-cvsimport ;-)
> 

I would highly recommend cvs2git over git-cvsimport for reproducing an
accurate history of the cvs repository.  cvs2git doesn't do incremental
imports like cvsimport, but I don't think that is needed in this situation.
 You may want to give it a try, just for a comparison anyway. 

-Brian


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