The steps I took this last weekend to make a local git tree to track my
own changes and the upstream CVS repository. Based on git 1.4.4.4 and
other tools in Debian 4.0 (Etch, current stable).
1) rsync the CVS repository so that git-cvsimport doesn't take ages and
oodles of bandwidth as it checks out the files at each version.
rsync -av rsync://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/sources/xlog .
2) Edit xlog/CVSROOT/config, comment out LockDir.
3) git cvsimport from your local xlog cvs repository. I chose not to
mess with the -o option so my 'upstream' stays with the standard branch
name of origin.
git-cvsimport -v -k -u -m -d </full/path/to/rsyncd/xlog> -C xlog.git xlog
4) Now pull the data out of .git into the working directory
git checkout .
5) Work away. :)
Use git-diff to make your patch files and git-cvsimport to update from
cvs (my version of git-cvsimport attempts to auto-merge origin to master
after the import which I appreciate.)
git-cvsimport -p -Z,3 -v -k -u -m -d
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/xlog
Works for me so far. Here are some resources I read to help me do this:
http://git.or.cz/
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=4142
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Tracking_Moodle_CVS_with_git
http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2006/04/tracking-the-ruby-cvs-with-git.html
--
Jacob / kd7yko
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