Hi Jan, On Friday 12 October 2007 16:30, Jan Hudec wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 14:21:39 +0200, Jan Wielemaker wrote: > > Does this make sense? > > It might make more sense to convert bit by bit, to separate git > repositories. Would save you some git-filter-branch work. > > Is the only way to create a GIT repositiory right away from a subset of > > the CVS for which we want to preserve the history? > > No, it's not. It will save you work if you can do as much splitting as > possible during the conversion, ie. convert the bits you know will be > separate separately (and combine them using submodules as appropriate). > > But if you have bits that will take a lot of work to factor out, you can > convert to git, make the other code ready to use a submodule and than use > git-filter-branch to extract the right bits of history for the submodule. Thanks! git-filter-branch looks a bit overwhelming, but I think I can manage :-) I'll do the simple things in separate conversions. Cheers --- Jan - 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
