1git-cvsimport(1) 2================ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-cvsimport - Salvage your data out of another SCM people love to hate 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git-cvsimport' [-o <branch-for-HEAD>] [-h] [-v] [-d <CVSROOT>] [-s <subst>] 13 [-p <options-for-cvsps>] [-C <git_repository>] [-i] [-P <file>] 14 [-m] [-M regex] [<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 25You should *never* do any work of your own on the branches that are 26created by git-cvsimport. The initial import will create and populate a 27"master" branch from the CVS repository's main branch which you're free 28to work with; after that, you need to 'git merge' incremental imports, or 29any CVS branches, yourself. 30 31OPTIONS 32------- 33-d <CVSROOT>:: 34 The root of the CVS archive. May be local (a simple path) or remote; 35 currently, only the :local:, :ext: and :pserver: access methods 36 are supported. 37 38-C <target-dir>:: 39 The git repository to import to. If the directory doesn't 40 exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory. 41 42-i:: 43 Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing. This option 44 ensures the working directory and index remain untouched and will 45 not create them if they do not exist. 46 47-k:: 48 Kill keywords: will extract files with -kk from the CVS archive 49 to avoid noisy changesets. Highly recommended, but off by default 50 to preserve compatibility with early imported trees. 51 52-u:: 53 Convert underscores in tag and branch names to dots. 54 55-o <branch-for-HEAD>:: 56 The 'HEAD' branch from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within 57 the git repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for git. 58 Use this option if you want to import into a different branch. 59+ 60Use '-o master' for continuing an import that was initially done by 61the old cvs2git tool. 62 63-p <options-for-cvsps>:: 64 Additional options for cvsps. 65 The options '-u' and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here. 66+ 67If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. 68 69-P <cvsps-output-file>:: 70 Instead of calling cvsps, read the provided cvsps output file. Useful 71 for debugging or when cvsps is being handled outside cvsimport. 72 73-m:: 74 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option 75 will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source 76 branch name from the commit message. 77 78-M <regex>:: 79 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom 80 regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes. 81 You must escape forward slashes. 82 83-v:: 84 Verbosity: let 'cvsimport' report what it is doing. 85 86<CVS_module>:: 87 The CVS module you want to import. Relative to <CVSROOT>. 88 89-h:: 90 Print a short usage message and exit. 91 92-z <fuzz>:: 93 Pass the timestamp fuzz factor to cvsps, in seconds. If unset, 94 cvsps defaults to 300s. 95 96-s <subst>:: 97 Substitute the character "/" in branch names with <subst> 98 99-A <author-conv-file>:: 100 CVS by default uses the Unix username when writing its 101 commit logs. Using this option and an author-conv-file 102 in this format 103 104-a:: 105 Import all commits, including recent ones. cvsimport by default 106 skips commits that have a timestamp less than 10 minutes ago. 107 108-S <regex>:: 109 Skip paths matching the regex. 110 111-L <limit>:: 112 Limit the number of commits imported. Workaround for cases where 113 cvsimport leaks memory. 114 115+ 116--------- 117 exon=Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> 118 spawn=Simon Pawn <spawn@frog-pond.org> 119 120--------- 121+ 122git-cvsimport will make it appear as those authors had 123their GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL set properly 124all along. 125+ 126For convenience, this data is saved to $GIT_DIR/cvs-authors 127each time the -A option is provided and read from that same 128file each time git-cvsimport is run. 129+ 130It is not recommended to use this feature if you intend to 131export changes back to CVS again later with 132gitlink:git-cvsexportcommit[1]. 133 134OUTPUT 135------ 136If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. 137 138Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with 139a zero exit status. 140 141 142Author 143------ 144Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from 145various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 146 147Documentation 148-------------- 149Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. 150 151GIT 152--- 153Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 154