1git-cvsimport(1) 2================ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-cvsimport - Import a CVS repository into git 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 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 index 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-u:: 47 Convert underscores in tag and branch names to dots. 48 49-o <branch-for-HEAD>:: 50 The 'HEAD' branch from CVS is imported to the 'origin' branch within 51 the git repository, as 'HEAD' already has a special meaning for git. 52 Use this option if you want to import into a different branch. 53+ 54Use '-o master' for continuing an import that was initially done by 55the old cvs2git tool. 56 57-p <options-for-cvsps>:: 58 Additional options for cvsps. 59 The options '-u' and '-A' are implicit and should not be used here. 60+ 61If you need to pass multiple options, separate them with a comma. 62 63-P <cvsps-output-file>:: 64 Instead of calling cvsps, read the provided cvsps output file. Useful 65 for debugging or when cvsps is being handled outside cvsimport. 66 67-m:: 68 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message. This option 69 will enable default regexes that try to capture the name source 70 branch name from the commit message. 71 72-M <regex>:: 73 Attempt to detect merges based on the commit message with a custom 74 regex. It can be used with -m to also see the default regexes. 75 You must escape forward slashes. 76 77-v:: 78 Verbosity: let 'cvsimport' report what it is doing. 79 80<CVS_module>:: 81 The CVS module you want to import. Relative to <CVSROOT>. 82 83-h:: 84 Print a short usage message and exit. 85 86-z <fuzz>:: 87 Pass the timestamp fuzz factor to cvsps. 88 89-s <subst>:: 90 Substitute the character "/" in branch names with <subst> 91 92OUTPUT 93------ 94If '-v' is specified, the script reports what it is doing. 95 96Otherwise, success is indicated the Unix way, i.e. by simply exiting with 97a zero exit status. 98 99 100Author 101------ 102Written by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>, with help from 103various participants of the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 104 105Documentation 106-------------- 107Documentation by Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>. 108 109GIT 110--- 111Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 112