Re: CVS2Git using CVS2SVN worked fine

Michael Haggerty <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.cvs2svn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/16/2011 08:43 PM, Saugata Guha wrote:
> Feedback: for cvs2svn, it worked fine, with the following confusion.
> [...]

Thanks for your feedback.

> (1.1)
> The cat command is better in step, where you are doing git fast-import.

cat is not available on Windows, so I list the Windows-compatible
command first.  (At least I hope that it is Windows-compatible!)  For
big conversions, it might also be advantageous to start the fast-import
of the blob file while the rest of the cvs2git conversion is still running.

> (2) When the conversion is done.
> You must git checkout, without that if you do a git status,
> it will show all the files in the repository as marked as deleted.

Yes, the "git checkout master" command has been included in the trunk
version of the documentation for some time now, but hasn't made it into
a release yet.  But actually I just changed the instructions [1] to take
a slightly different approach of having the user create a bare
repository, then cloning it when done.  I think this is a more useful
workflow.

Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html

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