Re: [Gcl-devel] migration to git

[Raymond Toy]

>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:

    Camm> Greetings!  Here is the script I'm using for the conversion:
    Camm> #!/bin/bash

    Camm> rsync -av vcs.sv.gnu.org::sources/gcl/ ./gclr/
    Camm> cvs2git --blobfile=b --dumpfile=d --username=cvs2git ./gclr/
    Camm> cat d | ./gcl.committers >do
    Camm> rm -rf gcl.git
    Camm> mkdir gcl.git
    Camm> cd gcl.git
    Camm> git init --bare
    Camm> cat ../b ../do | git fast-import
    Camm> ../git-move-refs.py
    Camm> git gc --prune=now
    Camm> cd ..
    Camm> rm -rf gcl
    Camm> git clone ./gcl.git

    Camm> This appears to leave several automatically generated branches in the
    Camm> repository, e.g. unlabeled-1.1.1.1.12, despite the automatic removal
    Camm> attempt.  What should be done here?

My personal feeling is that you do a reasonable job and then just give
up.  At a certain point, the old stuff doesn't matter very much
because you rarely ever use it except to see how the code used to be.

When I converted cmucl cvs to git, a few mistakes were made, like cvs
branches that weren't git branches and some tags weren't correctly
applied.  But I found that those didn't really matter because I never
look back that far anymore since those branches were essentially dead
and most of the bad tags didn't matter because the important tags were
correct.

Ray