Best practices for using git with CVS

Question

What are your best practices and tips for using git to interface with a CVS repository?

Answer 1

I've only worked with Git-CVS interactions to demo Git for a friend, but it was very straightforward.

• You need to install a current copy of cvsps. Git cvsimport uses this to access CVS history.

• We found that, for a large project, inital set-up was much faster by taking a full copy of the CVS repo onto your computer, and doing the git cvsimport locally:

  $ rsync rsync://yourprojecthost.com/cvsroot/yourproject/*  
  $ mkdir myproject.git  
  $ cd myproject.git  
  $ git cvsimport -p -x -v -d :local:/path/to/cvsroot/yourproject 
  

Note that the -x after -p is very important. This passes -x to cvsps. For more information please see the cvsps man page.