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| author |  John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> | 2013-01-24 19:18:45 +0000 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-01-24 12:14:00 -0800 |
| commit | 1187ec99b93aefc3bfb6e360d285245745e1e390 (patch) | |
| tree | a173efbc28282765c499df76955ad9a697337717 /Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | |
| parent | git-for-each-ref.txt: 'raw' is a supported date format (diff) | |
| download | tgif-1187ec99b93aefc3bfb6e360d285245745e1e390.tar.xz | |
git-cvsimport.txt: cvsps-2 is deprecated
git-cvsimport relies on version 2 of cvsps and does not work with the
new version 3. Since cvsps 3.x does not currently work as well as
version 2 for incremental import, document this fact.
Specifically, there is no way to make new git-cvsimport that supports
cvsps 3.x and have a seamless transition for existing users since cvsps
3.x needs a time from which to continue importing and git-cvsimport does
not save the time of the last import or import into a specific namespace
so there is no safe way to calculate the time of the last import.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 98d9881d7e..fd1e613d95 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- +*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. |