On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ping Yin wrote: > > These days i tried to convert the cvs repository into git. I really > > want the conversion to be as accurate as possible. However, the cvs > > repository has been tagged in a very bad style which makes > > git-cvsimport or cvsps not work well. > > > > cvs2git sounds to be the right tool i should try. Unfortualely, i > > can't touch the cvs repository directly. So is it possible to use > > cvs2git in the remote host instead of the host of the cvs repository > > just as git-cvsimport does? Yes, i know it can't now. I just wonder > > whether it is possible to implement. > > cvs2svn/cvs2git itself can't work with remote repositories. It would be > enough if you could just get a copy of the repository; obviously you > don't need to use the original. > > If you can't get a copy of the CVS repository directly, you might be > able to recreate it indirectly via information read over the CVS > protocol using a tool like CVSsuck [1,2]. I have no experience with > CVSsuck, so if you try it out, please let us know whether you were > successful. > THX. If i try out cvssuck, i will let you know. -- Ping Yin -- 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
