On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:56:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It should literally be as easy as doing something like > > cd /path/to/cvs/checkout_X > export GIT_DIR=/path/to/git/repo > git add . > git commit -m"Import yyyymmdd snapshot" Aha! I didn't know that you could point to a repository with GIT_DIR and do useful operations without a working directory. My "master" repo that gets backed up and cloned everywhere is a bare repo anyway; I had been cloning it with -s and then using 'git push' to get changes back into it. A couple questions on that: 1. Will it notice deleted files? 2. How can I tell it what branch to commit to? > You'd have to make sure that you have the CVS directories ignored, of > course, and if you don't want to change the CVS directory at all (which is > a good idea!) you'd need to do that by using the "ignore" file in your > GIT_DIR, and just having the CVS entry there, instead of adding a > ".gitignore" file to the working tree and checking it in. Not a problem, I'm using cvsup in checkout mode so there are no CVS dirs. The checkout directory is an exact snapshot of "What The Repository Should Look Like." > The above is totally untested, of course, but I think that's the easiest > way to do things like this. In general, it should be *trivial* to do > snapshots with git using just about _any_ legacy SCM, exactly because you > can keep the whole git setup away from the legacy SCM directories with > that "GIT_DIR=.." thing. I'll make a backup of my repo and give it a try. Thanks! Craig - 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
