1git-cvsexportcommit(1) 2====================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-cvsexportcommit - Export a commit to a CVS checkout 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-cvsexportcommmit' [-h] [-v] [-c] [-p] [PARENTCOMMIT] COMMITID 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Exports a commit from GIT to a CVS checkout, making it easier 17to merge patches from a git repository into a CVS repository. 18 19Execute it from the root of the CVS working copy. GIT_DIR must be defined. 20See examples below. 21 22It does its best to do the safe thing, it will check that the files are 23unchanged and up to date in the CVS checkout, and it will not autocommit 24by default. 25 26Supports file additions, removals, and commits that affect binary files. 27 28If the commit is a merge commit, you must tell git-cvsapplycommit what parent 29should the changeset be done against. 30 31OPTIONS 32------- 33 34-c:: 35 Commit automatically if the patch applied cleanly. It will not 36 commit if any hunks fail to apply or there were other problems. 37 38-p:: 39 Be pedantic (paranoid) when applying patches. Invokes patch with 40 --fuzz=0 41 42-v:: 43 Verbose. 44 45EXAMPLES 46-------- 47 48Merge one patch into CVS:: 49+ 50------------ 51$ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git 52$ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout 53$ git-cvsexportcommit -v <commit-sha1> 54$ cvs commit -F .mgs <files> 55------------ 56 57Merge pending patches into CVS automatically -- only if you really know what you are doing :: 58+ 59------------ 60$ export GIT_DIR=~/project/.git 61$ cd ~/project_cvs_checkout 62$ git-cherry cvshead myhead | sed -n 's/^+ //p' | xargs -l1 git-cvsexportcommit -c -p -v 63------------ 64 65Author 66------ 67Written by Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> 68 69Documentation 70-------------- 71Documentation by Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> 72 73GIT 74--- 75Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 76