Re: files missing after converting a cvs repository to git

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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 01:08, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Has the CVS repo been tampered with in the past? If so, it's entirely
> possible that checking out and working with CVS works just fine, but
> getting history into coherent changesets is impossible.

Unfortunately yes. Thats what I thought, and was afraid, was going on.
I've managed to get things working by restoring some of the missing
files ,v files from a backup and regenerating the tracking
repositories. Then I had to remove the files in question from cvs and
readd them, git cvsimport then saw these files.

> cvs2svn is apparently quite good at getting even the weirdest history
> right. Perhaps you can try that and then running "git svn" on the
> resulting svn repo?

Thanks, I'll give cvs2svn a go.

> Good luck. You'll probably need it :-/

Cheers

Adam
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