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| author | Jonathan Maw <jonathan.maw@codethink.co.uk> | 2013-09-30 15:08:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Maw <jonathan.maw@codethink.co.uk> | 2013-09-30 15:08:10 +0100 |
| commit | 43efcf42382e87de4aa423e5e1607958ad1717d0 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e19a0765b0dd6885fbdf69d3a8d0159a1b42de8 /Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | |
| parent | 45d74c4b0fe38218b4569a90da7102cf48d616c2 (diff) | |
| parent | c7fd06b6411fb04eb4d9acd7f8822a288a50dc17 (diff) | |
| download | git-43efcf42382e87de4aa423e5e1607958ad1717d0.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'baserock/jonathanmaw/S9007/upgrade-git' into baserock/morphbaserock/morph
Reviewed-by: Lars Wirzenius <lars.wirzenius@codethink.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Silverstone <daniel.silverstone@codethink.co.uk>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 6695ab3b4b..d1bcda28f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -18,7 +18,13 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new +*WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered +deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later. If you are +performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using +link:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or +link:https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. + +Imports a CVS repository into Git. It will either create a new repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. Splitting the CVS log into patch sets is done by 'cvsps'. @@ -59,18 +65,18 @@ OPTIONS `CVS/Repository`. -C <target-dir>:: - The git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't + The Git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory. -r <remote>:: - The git remote to import this CVS repository into. + The Git remote to import this CVS repository into. Moves all CVS branches into remotes/<remote>/<branch> akin to the way 'git clone' uses 'origin' by default. -o <branch-for-HEAD>:: When no remote is specified (via -r) the 'HEAD' branch - from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within the git - repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for git. + from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within the Git + repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for Git. When a remote is specified the 'HEAD' branch is named remotes/<remote>/master mirroring 'git clone' behaviour. Use this option if you want to import into a different @@ -137,17 +143,19 @@ This option can be used several times to provide several detection regexes. -A <author-conv-file>:: CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file - in this format + maps the name recorded in CVS to author name, e-mail and + optional timezone: + --------- exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> - spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org> + spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org> America/Chicago --------- + 'git cvsimport' will make it appear as those authors had their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly -all along. +all along. If a timezone is specified, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE will +have the corresponding offset applied. + For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors` each time the '-A' option is provided and read from that same @@ -211,11 +219,9 @@ Problems related to tags: * Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported. If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you -want to import consider using these alternative tools which proved to be -more stable in practice: +want to imort, consider using cvs2git: -* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org` -* parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs` +* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/` GIT --- |