1git-cvsimport-script(1) 2======================= 3v0.1, July 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-cvsimport-script - Import a CVS repository into git 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-cvsimport-script' [ -o <branch-for-HEAD> ] [ -h ] [ -v ] 13 [ -d <CVSROOT> ] [ -p <options-for-cvsps> ] 14 [ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -k ] [ <CVS_module> ] 15 16 17DESCRIPTION 18----------- 19Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new 20repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. 21 22Splitting the CVS log into patch sets is done by 'cvsps'. 23At least version 2.1 is required. 24 25OPTIONS 26------- 27-d <CVSROOT>:: 28 The root of the CVS archive. May be local (a simple path) or remote; 29 currently, only the :local:, :ext: and :pserver: access methods 30 are supported. 31 32-C <target-dir>:: 33 The GIT repository to import to. If the directory doesn't 34 exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory. 35 36-i:: 37 Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing. This option 38 ensures the working directory and cache remain untouched and will 39 not create them if they do not exist. 40 41-k:: 42 Kill keywords: will extract files with -kk from the CVS archive 43 to avoid noisy changesets. Highly recommended, but off by default 44 to preserve compatibility with early imported trees. 45 46-o <branch-for-HEAD>:: 47 The 'HEAD' branch from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within 48 the git repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for git. 49 Use this option if you want to import into a different branch. 50 51 Use '-o master' for continuing an import that was initially done by 52 the old cvs2git tool. 53 54-p <options-for-cvsps>:: 55 Additional options for cvsps. 56 The options '-u' and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here. 57 58 If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. 59 60-v:: 61 Verbosity: let 'cvsimport' report what it is doing. 62 63<CVS_module>:: 64 The CVS module you want to import. Relative to <CVSROOT>. 65 66-h:: 67 Print a short usage message and exit. 68 69-z <fuzz>:: 70 Pass the timestamp fuzz factor to cvsps. 71 72OUTPUT 73------ 74If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. 75 76Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with 77a zero exit status. 78 79 80Author 81------ 82Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from 83various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 84 85Documentation 86-------------- 87Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. 88 89GIT 90--- 91Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 92