1git-cvsimport(1) 2================ 3v0.1, July 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-cvsimport - Import a CVS repository into git 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-cvsimport' [ -o <branch-for-HEAD> ] [ -h ] [ -v ] 13 [ -d <CVSROOT> ] [ -p <options-for-cvsps> ] 14 [ -C <GIT_repository> ] [ -i ] [ -k ] 15 [ -s <subst> ] [ -m ] [ -M regex ] [ <CVS_module> ] 16 17 18DESCRIPTION 19----------- 20Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new 21repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. 22 23Splitting the CVS log into patch sets is done by 'cvsps'. 24At least version 2.1 is required. 25 26OPTIONS 27------- 28-d <CVSROOT>:: 29 The root of the CVS archive. May be local (a simple path) or remote; 30 currently, only the :local:, :ext: and :pserver: access methods 31 are supported. 32 33-C <target-dir>:: 34 The GIT repository to import to. If the directory doesn't 35 exist, it will be created. Default is the current directory. 36 37-i:: 38 Import-only: don't perform a checkout after importing. This option 39 ensures the working directory and cache remain untouched and will 40 not create them if they do not exist. 41 42-k:: 43 Kill keywords: will extract files with -kk from the CVS archive 44 to avoid noisy changesets. Highly recommended, but off by default 45 to preserve compatibility with early imported trees. 46 47-u:: 48 Convert underscores in tag and branch names to dots. 49 50-o <branch-for-HEAD>:: 51 The 'HEAD' branch from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within 52 the git repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for git. 53 Use this option if you want to import into a different branch. 54+ 55Use '-o master' for continuing an import that was initially done by 56the old cvs2git tool. 57 58-p <options-for-cvsps>:: 59 Additional options for cvsps. 60 The options '-u' and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here. 61+ 62If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. 63 64-m:: 65 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option 66 will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source 67 branch name from the commit message. 68 69-M <regex>:: 70 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom 71 regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes. 72 You must escape forward slashes. 73 74-v:: 75 Verbosity: let 'cvsimport' report what it is doing. 76 77<CVS_module>:: 78 The CVS module you want to import. Relative to <CVSROOT>. 79 80-h:: 81 Print a short usage message and exit. 82 83-z <fuzz>:: 84 Pass the timestamp fuzz factor to cvsps. 85 86-s <subst>:: 87 Substitute the character "/" in branch names with <subst> 88 89OUTPUT 90------ 91If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. 92 93Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with 94a zero exit status. 95 96 97Author 98------ 99Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from 100various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 101 102Documentation 103-------------- 104Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. 105 106GIT 107--- 108Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 109