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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index fdd7ec7edd..8bcd875a67 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ git-cvsimport - Salvage your data out of another SCM people love to hate SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-cvsimport' [-o <branch-for-HEAD>] [-h] [-v] [-d <CVSROOT>] +'git cvsimport' [-o <branch-for-HEAD>] [-h] [-v] [-d <CVSROOT>] [-A <author-conv-file>] [-p <options-for-cvsps>] [-P <file>] [-C <git_repository>] [-z <fuzz>] [-i] [-k] [-u] [-s <subst>] [-a] [-m] [-M <regex>] [-S <regex>] [-L <commitlimit>] - [-r <remote>] [<CVS_module>] + [-r <remote>] [-R] [<CVS_module>] DESCRIPTION @@ -24,13 +24,22 @@ 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. +*WARNING:* for certain situations the import leads to incorrect results. +Please see the section <<issues,ISSUES>> for further reference. + 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 +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. +If you intend to set up a shared public repository that all developers can +read/write, or if you want to use linkgit:git-cvsserver[1], then you +probably want to make a bare clone of the imported repository, +and use the clone as the shared repository. +See linkgit:gitcvs-migration[7]. + OPTIONS ------- @@ -40,13 +49,13 @@ OPTIONS -d <CVSROOT>:: 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 + 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. <CVS_module>:: The CVS module you want to import. Relative to <CVSROOT>. - If not given, git-cvsimport tries to read it from + If not given, 'git cvsimport' tries to read it from `CVS/Repository`. -C <target-dir>:: @@ -56,14 +65,14 @@ OPTIONS -r <remote>:: The git remote to import this CVS repository into. Moves all CVS branches into remotes/<remote>/<branch> - akin to the git-clone --use-separate-remote option. + 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. When a remote is specified the 'HEAD' branch is named - remotes/<remote>/master mirroring git-clone behaviour. + remotes/<remote>/master mirroring 'git clone' behaviour. Use this option if you want to import into a different branch. + @@ -102,13 +111,17 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. -m:: Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option - will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source + will enable default regexes that try to capture the source branch name from the commit message. -M <regex>:: Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom - regex. It can be used with '-m' to also see the default regexes. - You must escape forward slashes. + regex. It can be used with '-m' to enable the default regexes + as well. You must escape forward slashes. ++ +The regex must capture the source branch name in $1. ++ +This option can be used several times to provide several detection regexes. -S <regex>:: Skip paths matching the regex. @@ -132,17 +145,33 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. --------- + -git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had +'git cvsimport' will make it appear as those authors had their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly all along. + For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors` each time the '-A' option is provided and read from that same -file each time git-cvsimport is run. +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 -gitlink:git-cvsexportcommit[1]. +'git cvsexportcommit'. + +-R:: + Generate a `$GIT_DIR/cvs-revisions` file containing a mapping from CVS + revision numbers to newly-created Git commit IDs. The generated file + will contain one line for each (filename, revision) pair imported; + each line will look like ++ +--------- +src/widget.c 1.1 1d862f173cdc7325b6fa6d2ae1cfd61fd1b512b7 +--------- ++ +The revision data is appended to the file if it already exists, for use when +doing incremental imports. ++ +This option may be useful if you have CVS revision numbers stored in commit +messages, bug-tracking systems, email archives, and the like. -h:: Print a short usage message and exit. @@ -154,6 +183,39 @@ 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. +[[issues]] +ISSUES +------ +Problems related to timestamps: + + * If timestamps of commits in the cvs repository are not stable enough + to be used for ordering commits changes may show up in the wrong + order. + * If any files were ever "cvs import"ed more than once (e.g., import of + more than one vendor release) the HEAD contains the wrong content. + * If the timestamp order of different files cross the revision order + within the commit matching time window the order of commits may be + wrong. + +Problems related to branches: + + * Branches on which no commits have been made are not imported. + * All files from the branching point are added to a branch even if + never added in cvs. + * This applies to files added to the source branch *after* a daughter + branch was created: if previously no commit was made on the daughter + branch they will erroneously be added to the daughter branch in git. + +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: + +* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org` +* parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs` Author ------ @@ -166,4 +228,4 @@ Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. GIT --- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |