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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-10-03 13:22:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-10-03 13:22:25 -0700 |
| commit | 3d0049ea359c88a6a3615e9f25a9bb613caff5b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 06b44f5755a6cb2a93a076883f6ebc7496ab6d3c | |
| parent | Merge branch 'jk/pack-tag-of-tag' into maint (diff) | |
| parent | docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats (diff) | |
| download | tgif-3d0049ea359c88a6a3615e9f25a9bb613caff5b8.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jk/doc-cvs-update' into maint
Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated.
* jk/doc-cvs-update:
docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats
docs/cvs-migration: update link to cvsps homepage
docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvs
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 41207a24b0..de1ebed67d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ DESCRIPTION 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 http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or -https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. +http://www.catb.org/esr/cvs-fast-export/[cvs-fast-export]. Imports a CVS repository into Git. It will either create a new repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. diff --git a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt index b06e852a85..4c6143c511 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt @@ -116,8 +116,12 @@ they create are writable and searchable by other group members. Importing a CVS archive ----------------------- +NOTE: These instructions use the `git-cvsimport` script which ships with +git, but other importers may provide better results. See the note in +linkgit:git-cvsimport[1] for other options. + First, install version 2.1 or higher of cvsps from -http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make +https://github.com/andreyvit/cvsps[https://github.com/andreyvit/cvsps] and make sure it is in your path. Then cd to a checked out CVS working directory of the project you are interested in and run linkgit:git-cvsimport[1]: |