Michael Wild wrote: > > On 1. Nov, 2009, at 17:00 , Brad King wrote: > >> Michael Wild wrote: >>> Just out of curiosity: Do you use the -k flag with git-cvsimport? The >>> man-page says that it's highly recommended, but broke things for me. >> >> We're not using git-cvsimport. The mirror is converted incrementally >> from CVS using fromcvs/togit. We are using it's "-kk" option to remove >> CVS keyword replacement values ($Revision: 1.1$ becomes just $Revision$). >> >> I've been tracking several projects with fromcvs/togit for almost two >> years. After the author (quickly!) fixed a couple bugs I discovered >> in the first few months of use, it has been very solid. I've even >> re-converted from scratch and obtained the exact same commit sha1s. >> It doesn't do cvs tags, but it does do branches very well. >> >> -Brad > > But that only works with a local CVS repository, right?
Yes. I rsync the repo to the machine where it gets imported. IIRC there is a "cvssuck" tool to mirror a remote repo over the pserver protocol. -Brad _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
