On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 16:41 -0400, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:35:36PM +0000, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > I'm wanting to import the entirety of a CVS repository into git rather > > than an individual module. However every approach I've tried to do this > > fails as the underlying cvsps tool seems to only be able to deal with > > modules rather than the whole project. > > > > Is there any invocation I could do that would do the whole import? > > What do you want the result to look like? If you have CVS modules 'foo', > 'bar', and 'baz', I assume you want a repository with subdirectories > 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz'? > > In that case, you can create a CVS module that just includes all three: > > cd /path/to/cvsroot > mkdir all > cd all > for i in foo bar baz; do > ln -s ../$i > done > > and then: > > git cvsimport all Hmm that fails: 09:55 ajb@pitcairn/x86_64 [test.cvs] >perl /export/src/git.git/git-cvsimport.perl -v -C /export/csrc/import_test/test.git all Initialized empty Git repository in /export/csrc/import_test/test.git/.git/ Running cvsps... cvs rlog: Logging . WARNING: file /newcvs/.cvsignore doesn't match strip_path /newcvs/all/. ignoring WARNING: file /newcvs/Attic/Make.rules doesn't match strip_path /newcvs/all/. ignoring WARNING: file /newcvs/Makefile doesn't match strip_path /newcvs/all/. ignoring WARNING: file /newcvs/Makefile.voip doesn't match strip_path /newcvs/all/. ignoring WARNING: file /newcvs/Attic/Vectastar.bom doesn't match strip_path /newcvs/all/. ignoring WARNING: file /newcvs/Attic/dMakefile doesn't match strip_path /newcvs/all/. ignoring cvs rlog: Logging CVSROOT WARNING: file /newcvs/CVSROOT/checkoutlist doesn't match strip_path /newcvs/all/. ignoring WARNING: file /newcvs/CVSROOT/commitinfo doesn't match strip_path /newcvs/all/. ignoring WARNING: file /newcvs/CVSROOT/config doesn't match strip_path /newcvs/all/. ignoring WARNING: file /newcvs/CVSROOT/cvsignore doesn't match strip_path /newcvs/all/. ignoring test.cvs is a fresh checkout of the whole tree. "newcvs" is the root of CVS on the server. The warnings are the same when I try with "." as the module. Or where you saying do this with the actually CVS repo itself? > You might be able to do something similar with the CVSROOT/modules file, > but I haven't tried. > > -Peff Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ There is no fool to the old fool. -- John Heywood -- 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
