CVS to GIT

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:

> We have a working sample, with a documented procedure, to move three CVS 
> modules (cmulocal, cyrus and sieve) into one GIT repository:
> 
>   http://www.cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Drafts/CVS_to_GIT_Conversion#Stab_.232
> 
> There some about branch and tag conversions as well. You can find the result 
> (which is preliminary!!) at http://git.kolabsys.com/cyrus-imapd.git.
> 
> I'll be working with Dave to get this setup over on cyrusimap.org as soon as 
> possible as well, but meanwhile, feedback is more then welcome!
> 
> Kind regards,

Oooh very nice. It seems to be a common issue that projects have to 
tweak their CVS repositories by hand to get a reasonable conversion to 
git. I'll try and take a closer look when I get a spare moment.

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.


ATB,

Mark.

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