On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 17:14, Philipp A. <flying-sh...@web.de> wrote: > thanks for picking up my rant in such a constructive manner :) > > A quick googling showed me this tool, cvs2git, whose “Development status” > section really sounds promising: > > ~~~~ > > Development status > > Most of the work of converting a repository from CVS to a more modern > version control system is inferring the most likely history given the > incomplete information that CVS records. cvs2svn has a long history of > making sense of even the most convoluted CVS repositories, and cvs2git uses > this same machinery. Therefore, cvs2git inherits the robustness and many of > the features of cvs2svn. cvs2svn can convert just about every CVS repository > we have ever seen, and includes a plethora of options for customizing your > conversion. > > The output of cvs2git is one or more dump files that can be imported into > git using the excellent git fast-import tool. > > Although cvs2git is considerably newer than cvs2svn, and much less well > tested, it is believed that cvs2git can (cautiously) be used for production > conversions. If you use cvs2git, please let us know how it worked for you!
At the moment I'm using git cvsimport -C $DIR/git/gnuplot.git -p x -d $DIR/cvs/gnuplot gnuplot to get gnuplot out of CVS repository. So far this worked reliably, the only problems that I experienced were: - I forgot the --delete switch when using rsync to fetch files from CVS repository, so files were not removed from repository, but that was entirely my fault - I once deleted a directory in CVS which had disastrous consequences since all the files from that directory are lost. But I think that this is a limitation of CVS, not limitation of git import tool. Nobody could restore those files. I had the git repository from an earlier attempt, so this was not a problem, but the CVS repository is still of questionable value. - files in CVS repositories on sourceforge have utterly weird permissions (like 575 for example); when I do "git cvsimport" those permissions stay on files on the same computer, but since git doesn't keep exact permissions, it turns out to be ok at the end - Warning: commit message does not conform to UTF-8. You may want to amend it after fixing the message, or set the config variable i18n.commitencoding to the encoding your project uses. Apart from that, no negative experience. > ~~~~ > > I hope this means that PGF/TikZ becomes hosted on Github – I think the team > there does a great job and the concept of “pull requests” really fits any > open source project, no matter how hard the criteria for patches are. Sadly not. If I put their code to GitHub, this doesn't mean that GitHub will become their primary version control system. I would use it just to simplify packaging of ConTeXt distribution. However: - it would be a convenient place for pgf developers to see which patches are needed - patches would be tested by ConTeXt users - it would be much easier to keep track of changes that are needed - we could use the bug tracker to keep track of changes that are still needed - Aditya or anyone else would be free to play with more ConTeXt-like code; pgf developers are not all aware of modern coding style in ConTeXt, but if they received a ready solution, they might accept it I have now put the files to https://github.com/mojca/pgf The location is temporary, so don't rely on it. Here is what I did: rsync -aO --delete rsync://pgf.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/pgf/ cvs/pgf git cvsimport -C $PWD/git/pgf.git -p x -d $PWD/cvs/pgf pgf git remote add origin g...@github.com:mojca/pgf.git git push -u origin master git push --tags The main problem is that I'm not yet sure how to transform this into TDS (keeping all the history etc.) Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________