Marin Atanasov venit, vidit, dixit 26.04.2010 16:27: > Hello, > > I need to import an existing CVS repo to Git. Using git-cvsimport > works well for me when importing from the CVS server itself, but I > need to do something different. > > Here's a little info about what I'm doing. > > $ pwd > /home/<user>/test > > $ git --version > git version 1.5.6.5 > > $ git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:<user>@<server>:/var/ > cvsroot -C test.git test-repo > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/<user>/test/test.git/.git/ > Running cvsps... > connect error: Network is unreachable > cvs rlog: Logging test-repo > Fetching file1 v 1.1 > New file1: 14 bytes > Fetching file2 v 1.1 > New file2: 14 bytes > Fetching file3 v 1.1 > New file3: 14 bytes > Tree ID bf675ce25c8ca3fd1f4a120ea933510c90ccda16 > Parent ID (empty) > Committed patch 1 (origin +0000 2010-04-26 09:40:58) > Commit ID 377641eae81975e214a579da9e6c0c5afd819b17 > Created tag 'SOMETAG' on 'origin' > Fetching file1 v 1.2 > Update file1: 47 bytes > Fetching file3 v 1.2 > Update file3: 47 bytes > Tree ID 10ab70cdcc53bb94684d09e60817bb62cb8c3d98 > Parent ID 377641eae81975e214a579da9e6c0c5afd819b17 > Committed patch 2 (origin +0000 2010-04-26 09:44:22) > Commit ID fea2a99c906e57df5c4735ba3f9627cbb8fba295 > DONE; creating master branch > > The above commands works fine, when I directly get the files from the > CVS server, but I want to do the following. > > - checkout files from CVS, which are already tagged with certain > names to a local folder > - then import those files to Git with git-cvsimport > - fetch those imports later by a shared bare repo into different > branches, so at the end each branch will contain the files with the > certain tag. > > So, If i do the following, then git-cvsimport fails: > > $ pwd > /home/<user>/test > > $ cvs -d :pserver:<user>@<server>:/var/cvsroot co -r SOMETAG test-repo > cvs checkout: Updating test-repo > U test-repo/file1 > U test-repo/file2 > U test-repo/file3 > > $ git cvsimport -v -d /home/<user>/test -C test.git test-repo > Expected Valid-requests from server, but got: E Cannot access > /home/<user>/test/CVSROOT > > Can you give me some hints how to do this? Seems that I can import CVS > repos from remote server, but cannot do this from a local folder.. ... because a folder is not a server, and a cvs checkout is not a cvs repo. It's not completely clear to me what you want and why, but the simplest way seems to be to checkout each cvs tag using cvs, and (add &) commit the result to the git branch of your choice using git. You don't seem to want to convert the cvs repo, so don't use git cvs-import. But, really, I don't know what you want - history-less git branches from cvs tags? Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html