Bug#845297: Bug #845297: Website transition from CVS to Git

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 04:06:46PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote:
...
> I have some questions:
> 1.- would the cvs2git script allow incremental updates? in case "yes", wouldn't
> make more sense to avoid the extra commits related to the conversion? I'm
> talking about these lines in the script:

No, according to their web site;

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jacob/cvs2svn/cvs2git.html
  cvs2git, like cvs2svn, does not support incremental conversion

If it is one-off conversion, it is not a problem.

If you wish bidirectional with reasonable speed, think about my script
which I used at one point in history.  I am not updating debian-webwml
recently.

  https://github.com/osamuaoki/git-cvs

There are two approaches to do bidirectional updates.

Regards,

Osamu