Author: draenog Date: Thu Jun 9 22:15:50 2011 GMT Module: packages Tag: HEAD ---- Log message: - README file with description of conversion
---- Files affected: packages/git-core: README (NONE -> 1.1) (NEW) ---- Diffs: ================================================================ Index: packages/git-core/README diff -u /dev/null packages/git-core/README:1.1 --- /dev/null Fri Jun 10 00:15:50 2011 +++ packages/git-core/README Fri Jun 10 00:15:44 2011 @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +To convert packages/* repositories from PLD CVS to git call: + + ./pld-git.sh + +Conversion of CVS repos to git ones is done in the following steps. + +1. The modified version of cvs2git is cloned from github + +2. rsync is used to make a local copy of CVS repo + + If REMOVE_BINARIES is set to yes the binary file are excluded. For an + exact pattern of excluded files see exclude_pattern in pld-git.sh + +3. The packages that have changed from last rsync are converted. For + conversion a modified version of cvs2git is used. + + Modifications to cvs2git: + + a. the algorithm to determine the parent branch of the given commit + is changed to give trunk smaller priority + b. the information about CVS revisions of changed files is added to + commit messages + +4. The new git repos are tweaked with a name deadbranch-... for branches + with names not longer registered in CVS. For details see header of + cvs2git_fixes.sh + + ================================================================ _______________________________________________ pld-cvs-commit mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-cvs-commit
