Subject: Re: Git: CVS to Git import

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:43:47 -0800 (PST)

Jvsrvcs <[email-masked]> writes:

> Git:  CVS to Git import
> 
> We are moving from CVS to Git and want to know if anyone has had any
> experience there doing this and could share do's  / dont's, best practices
> when doing the initial import.
> 
> Also are there any known problems/bugs with the cvs to git import with
> regards to CVS history?

I think that Eric S Raymond "DVCS Migration Guide"

   http://www.catb.org/esr/dvcs-migration-guide.html

and reposurgeon tool (to clean up conversion artifacts)

   http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/

might help.

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Jakub Narębski