Re: git cvsimport error

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Adam Mercer <ramercer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Craig L. Ching <cching@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yeah, I don't know much about it at all, but my advice would be to run
> > cvsps by itself and generate a cache that git-fast-import can import.
> > That's the approach we're taking because it gives us a chance to figure
> > out where things have gone wrong as we have some bad, buggy commits in
> > our archive (CVS created the bad commits).
> 
> I thought of using git-fast-import but the problem is that the CVS
> repository is still in use so I need to keep the git and CVS repos
> synchronised and it seems like git-fast-import can't be used in this
> case.

You can run fast-import in incremental behavior.  You just have to
restart each branch with a "from refs/heads/master^0" or whatever.
There's some discussion of this in the (rather large) fast-import
man page.

-- 
Shawn.
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