hosting git conversion of Fedora CVS tree on fedora infrastructure?

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Tue Nov 20 16:01:40 UTC 2007


Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> wrote:
...
> Maintaining an accurate cvs->git mirror is not trivial (I know, from
> experience with the full repositories of coreutils, emacs, libc, and a
> few more).  If you can do it well and keep it accurate, then it'd make
> a fine and very welcome service.
>
> I've found that the initial conversion works best with cvsparse.

    s/cvsparse/parsecvs/

FYI, sources here

    git-clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs

> It's _much_ more efficient than git-cvsimport, and more reliable, too.




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