git-cvsimport(1) ================ NAME ---- git-cvsimport - Salvage your data out of another SCM people love to hate SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git-cvsimport' [-o ] [-h] [-v] [-d ] [-A ] [-p ] [-P ] [-C ] [-z ] [-i] [-k] [-u] [-s ] [-a] [-m] [-M ] [-S ] [-L ] [-r ] [] DESCRIPTION ----------- 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'. At least version 2.1 is required. You should *never* do any work of your own on the branches that are created by git-cvsimport. By default initial import will create and populate a "master" branch from the CVS repository's main branch which you're free to work with; after that, you need to 'git merge' incremental imports, or any CVS branches, yourself. It is advisable to specify a named remote via -r to separate and protect the incoming branches. OPTIONS ------- -v:: Verbosity: let 'cvsimport' report what it is doing. -d :: The root of the CVS archive. May be local (a simple path) or remote; currently, only the :local:, :ext: and :pserver: access methods are supported. If not given, git-cvsimport will try to read it from `CVS/Root`. If no such file exists, it checks for the `CVSROOT` environment variable. :: The CVS module you want to import. Relative to . If not given, git-cvsimport tries to read it from `CVS/Repository`. -C :: The git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory. -r :: The git remote to import this CVS repository into. Moves all CVS branches into remotes// akin to the git-clone --use-separate-remote option. -o :: 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. When a remote is specified the 'HEAD' branch is named remotes//master mirroring git-clone behaviour. Use this option if you want to import into a different branch. + Use '-o master' for continuing an import that was initially done by the old cvs2git tool. -i:: Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing. This option ensures the working directory and index remain untouched and will not create them if they do not exist. -k:: Kill keywords: will extract files with '-kk' from the CVS archive to avoid noisy changesets. Highly recommended, but off by default to preserve compatibility with early imported trees. -u:: Convert underscores in tag and branch names to dots. -s :: Substitute the character "/" in branch names with -p :: Additional options for cvsps. The options '-u' and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here. + If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. -z :: Pass the timestamp fuzz factor to cvsps, in seconds. If unset, cvsps defaults to 300s. -P :: Instead of calling cvsps, read the provided cvsps output file. Useful for debugging or when cvsps is being handled outside cvsimport. -m:: Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source branch name from the commit message. -M :: Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom regex. It can be used with '-m' to enable the default regexes as well. You must escape forward slashes. -S :: Skip paths matching the regex. -a:: Import all commits, including recent ones. cvsimport by default skips commits that have a timestamp less than 10 minutes ago. -L :: Limit the number of commits imported. Workaround for cases where cvsimport leaks memory. -A :: CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file in this format + --------- exon=Andreas Ericsson spawn=Simon Pawn --------- + git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly all along. + For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors` each time the '-A' option is provided and read from that same file each time git-cvsimport is run. + It is not recommended to use this feature if you intend to export changes back to CVS again later with linkgit:git-cvsexportcommit[1]. -h:: Print a short usage message and exit. OUTPUT ------ If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with a zero exit status. Author ------ Written by Matthias Urlichs , with help from various participants of the git-list . Documentation -------------- Documentation by Matthias Urlichs . GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite