any more familiar with it, but make sure it is in your path. After that,
the magic command line is
- git cvsimport <cvsroot> <module>
+ git cvsimport -d <cvsroot> <module> <destination>
which will do exactly what you'd think it does: it will create a git
-archive of the named CVS module. The new archive will be created in a
-subdirectory named <module>.
+archive of the named CVS module. The new archive will be created in the
+subdirectory named <destination>; it'll be created if it doesn't exist.
+Default is the local directory.
It can take some time to actually do the conversion for a large archive
since it involves checking out from CVS every revision of every file,
and the conversion script can be reasonably chatty, but on some not very
-scientific tests it averaged about eight revisions per second, so a
+scientific tests it averaged about twenty revisions per second, so a
medium-sized project should not take more than a couple of minutes. For
larger projects or remote repositories, the process may take longer.
+After the import is done, do this:
+
+ cp .git/refs/heads/<branch> .git/refs/heads/master
+ git-read-tree
+ git-checkout-cache -q -f -u -a
+
+The head branch is named "origin" by default; you can change that using
+the '-o' option to "git cvsimport".
+
+The import is incremental, i.e. if you call it again next month it'll
+fetch any CVS updates that have been happening in the meantime. You can
+then merge those updates into your main branch:
+
+ cg-merge <branch>
+
Emulating CVS behaviour
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