Rostislav Svoboda wrote: > I'd like to clone a CVS repository to a local machine in order to > prepare it for a migration to git. I tried: > > $git cvsimport -p x -v -d > [...] If your goal is a high-quality one-time conversion from CVS to git, then you would be better off getting a filesystem copy of the CVS repository then converting with cvs2git [1]. "git cvsimport" does not convert a CVS repository faithfully to git, though it might barely be adequate if you absolutely need to keep git and CVS in sync. If you do not have filesystem access to your CVS repository, you might be able to clone it using CVSSuck [2,3]. Michael the cvs2svn/cvs2git maintainer [1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html [2] http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/cvssuck/ [3] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html#repoaccess -- 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
