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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 608cd63fc3..de1ebed67d 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -18,7 +18,13 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new +*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 +http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or +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. Splitting the CVS log into patch sets is done by 'cvsps'. @@ -59,19 +65,19 @@ OPTIONS `CVS/Repository`. -C <target-dir>:: - The git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't + The Git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory. -r <remote>:: - The git remote to import this CVS repository into. + The Git remote to import this CVS repository into. Moves all CVS branches into remotes/<remote>/<branch> 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 + 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. Use this option if you want to import into a different branch. @@ -97,7 +103,7 @@ the old cvs2git tool. -p <options-for-cvsps>:: Additional options for cvsps. - The options '-u' and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here. + 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. @@ -116,7 +122,7 @@ If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. -M <regex>:: Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom - regex. It can be used with '-m' to enable the default regexes + 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 $1. @@ -137,17 +143,19 @@ This option can be used several times to provide several detection regexes. -A <author-conv-file>:: CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file - in this format + maps the name recorded in CVS to author name, e-mail and + optional time zone: + --------- exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> - spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org> + spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org> America/Chicago --------- + 'git cvsimport' will make it appear as those authors had their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly -all along. +all along. If a time zone is specified, GIT_AUTHOR_DATE will +have the corresponding offset applied. + For convenience, this data is saved to `$GIT_DIR/cvs-authors` each time the '-A' option is provided and read from that same @@ -178,7 +186,7 @@ messages, bug-tracking systems, email archives, and the like. OUTPUT ------ -If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. +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. @@ -211,20 +219,9 @@ 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 ------- -Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from -various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. +want to import, consider using cvs2git: -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. +* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/` GIT --- |