Re: RFC: Migration of the master revision control repository to git

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Patrice Fournier wrote:

> We would like to make the git repository the master repository to which
> HylaFAX developers would push their changes and have a read-only CVS mirror
> for those who prefer or can only use CVS. On this mirror, the various git
> heads (branches) would appear as different modules instead of branches, beside
> this and different file version IDs, the CVS repository would looks like the
> current CVS repository to the end user.
> 
> We would like to get feedback from all active commiters regarding this
> migration. Are you all in favor of this migration and if not, what would be
> the reason? (So that we can find a solution and still migrate to git. ;))

I can't say I'm in favor of the migration (after all, it will be more work
for me to learn yet another version control program) but I certainly will
not stand in the way of it. What would help me is some good pointers to
how to use git.
And more specificly, how to duplicate the things I do with CVS now.

Say I wanted to check out HEAD to a directory named hylafax,
with CVS I would
cvs -z9 -d [email protected]:/usr/local/cvsroot co -d hylafax hylafax

Then to pull updates for HEAD
cvs -z9 -d [email protected]:/usr/local/cvsroot update -d hylafax

or check out the 6.0 branch to a directoty named hylafax-6.0 would
be
cvs -z9 -d [email protected]:/usr/local/cvsroot update -r HYLAFAX-6_0-branch -d hylafax-6.0

and to pull updates for the 6.0 branch
cvs -z9 -d [email protected]:/usr/local/cvsroot co -r HYLAFAX-6_0-branch -d hylafax-6.0 hylafax

How do I do those things with git?

Then there is commiting
Say I wanted to commit defs.in in HEAD, I would
cvs -d [email protected]:/usr/local/cvsroot commit hylafax/defs.in

or to the 6.0 branch
cvs -d [email protected]:/usr/local/cvsroot commit -r HYLAFAX-6_0-branch hylafax-6.0/defs.in

How is that done with git?
 
Then what about adding files?
If I wanted to add the files hylafax/faxcover/edit-faxcover.sh.in and
hylafax/man/edit-faxcover.1 I would use a script something like
.......
HERE=`pwd`
FILES_ADD="hylafax/faxcover/edit-faxcover.sh.in hylafax/man/edit-faxcover.1"
for i in $FILES_ADD
do
	cd `dirname $i`
	cvs -d [email protected]:/usr/local/cvsroot add `basename ${i}` 
	cd $HERE
done
.......

How is that done with git?

Thanks for any tips you may have.

-- 
Tim Rice				Multitalents	(707) 887-1469
[email protected]



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