Apologies for the somewhat belated reply. I've been even busier than
usual lately and am about to be traveling for a week.
Ilya Basin basini...@gmail.com:
Hi Eric.
ESR cvs-fast-export does not have incremental-import support.
ESR Whether git-cvs-import has it depend on which version you
But if the branch is new, but it's parent commit is already imported,
I guess, the only way to refer it is by its SHA-1
Eric, what parent information can cvsps provide for the first commit
in a branch, when invoked with the '-d' flag?
ESR At the moment it doesn't provide any at all. That
Ilya Basin basini...@gmail.com:
For new branches the 'from' command can refer the common ancestor in
an existing branch. For example:
/--E thebranch
/
A---B---C---D master
Commit E is newer than D; we already imported D; thebranch is new.
Instead of:
ESR Ilya Basin basini...@gmail.com:
For new branches the 'from' command can refer the common ancestor in
an existing branch. For example:
/--E thebranch
/
A---B---C---D master
Commit E is newer than D; we already imported D; thebranch is new.
Instead of:
Hi Eric.
ESR cvs-fast-export does not have incremental-import support.
ESR Whether git-cvs-import has it depend on which version you have
ESR and what backend it it is using. I don't maintain that wrapper.
Did you mean git-fast-import? Or do you know any wrapper that
already uses cvsps3
Ilya Basin basini...@gmail.com:
Hi Eric.
I tried --fast-export. It's 2 times faster.
The first thing that differs: in cvsps2 commits with adjacent
timestamps were joined into one (see the attached files). Do you know
the reason?
The cvsps guy included code to do that. Keith Packard didn't.
Hi Eric.
I tried --fast-export. It's 2 times faster.
The first thing that differs: in cvsps2 commits with adjacent
timestamps were joined into one (see the attached files). Do you know
the reason?
Does this --fast-export thing support what John mentioned, the
incremental import support? Does
Ilya Basin wrote:
Does this --fast-export thing support what John mentioned, the
incremental import support? Does 'git fast-import' has it?
I need it, because full import takes too long.
The central repo of my employer is CVS, other people commit to it and
I use git internally to be able to
Ilya Basin basini...@gmail.com:
IB Hi esr.
IB In cvsps 3.10 the flag --norc was removed. It broke 'git cvsimport'.
IB Please give the option back and write something in the man page like:
IB This option has no effect; it is present for compatibility
Looks like the tool is completely
On 04/14/2013 01:33 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
[...]
I wish I could point you at a convertor I really trust. I can't.
There is a third tool, cvs2git (based on the analyzer from cvs2svn)
that I don't maintain, which has problems of its own.
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