Re: cvs importing a forked project

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 17:38, Eric Frederich <eric.frederich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a project (several actually) where development was done in cvs
> for 10 years. ÂThen, about 5 years ago, a copy of the latest was made
> and development continued in a new project.
> Development in the old project stopped for the most part.
>
> Is there any way where I can combine these two projects in git?
> Basically, take the newer project's first commit and make its parent
> the the last commit of the older project.
> Development was pretty linear.

Sure, you import them both into git with cvs2git (or something like
that), then you fetch all the commits into a single git repository.

Then it becomes a problem of merging two git histories, something
that's widely documented and well understood.
--
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


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]