Author: draenog Date: Fri Jun 10 01:03:54 2011 GMT Module: git-migration Tag: HEAD ---- Log message: - README file with description of conversion process
---- Files affected: git-migration: README (NONE -> 1.1) (NEW) ---- Diffs: ================================================================ Index: git-migration/README diff -u /dev/null git-migration/README:1.1 --- /dev/null Fri Jun 10 03:03:54 2011 +++ git-migration/README Fri Jun 10 03:03:47 2011 @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +To convert packages/* repositories from PLD CVS to git run: + + ./pld-git.sh + +Conversion of CVS repos to git 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. 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
