From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 18:04:22 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Merge branch 'jk/cvsimport-does-not-work-with-cvsps3' into maint X-Git-Tag: v1.8.1.3~12 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/3d00a5c148ee5611fc21de6d20f5f82602a75c5f?ds=inline;hp=-c Merge branch 'jk/cvsimport-does-not-work-with-cvsps3' into maint * jk/cvsimport-does-not-work-with-cvsps3: git-cvsimport.txt: cvsps-2 is deprecated --- 3d00a5c148ee5611fc21de6d20f5f82602a75c5f diff --combined Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 9d5353e8be,fd1e613d95..f059ea94da --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@@ -18,6 -18,12 +18,12 @@@ SYNOPSI DESCRIPTION ----------- + *WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered + deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later. If you are + performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using + link:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or + link:https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. + Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. @@@ -213,9 -219,11 +219,9 @@@ Problems related to tags * Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported. If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you -want to import consider using these alternative tools which proved to be -more stable in practice: +want to imort, consider using cvs2git: -* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org` -* parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs` +* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/` GIT ---