[ft-devel] problems with CVS->git conversion

[Werner LEMBERG]

Folks,


the `empty log message' problem in the conversion from CVS to git
still bites me.  It is far more trickier than expected :-(

The steps I've suggested in a previous mail (using parsecvs, then `git
format-patch' & `git am') works in principle.  However, tags created
by parsecvs are lost.

I'm now going to investigate whether parsecvs can be edited so that
its two-staging operation can be stopped after the first stage.  My
idea is that after reading all CVS repository files, the commits are
written as editable diff files (with some additional `commands' to
transport tags and similar meta stuff).  parsecvs already does this,
but currently uses a binary format (or something in compressed form).
Then I can check all those files, possibly fixing the commit messages.
The last step is continuing with parsecvs's second stage to convert
all those diffs to a git repository.

On the other hand, a cvs2patch tool might already exist which emits a
CVS repository as a set of patches.  Any ideas or links?


    Werner