Re: Preserving CVS history

On 29/10/14 20:42, Cesar Strauss wrote:
> On 23/10/2014 21:35, Keith Marshall wrote:
>> On 23/10/14 22:06, Cesar Strauss wrote:
>>> The authoritative CVS repository for mingwrt and w32api seems to be:
>>>
>>> https://cygwin.com/viewvc/src/winsup/mingw/
>>> https://cygwin.com/viewvc/src/winsup/w32api/
>>
>> Those are web view references; I don't think they represent actual
>> (current) CVS repositories.
> 
> It seems the underlying repository is accessible by rsync:
> 
> rsync -avz cygwin.com::src-cvs/src/winsup/w32api srcdir
> rsync -avz cygwin.com::src-cvs/src/winsup/mingw srcdir

Good to know, thanks.

> I'm using this tool to convert directly from the raw CVS repositories to 
> Git:
> 
> http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html
> 
> I'll just remove the last commit, which deleted the files.

Seems good to me ... as a separate git repo; (rewriting history in the
existing WSL repo would not be a good idea).

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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