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

Slightly meta-answer. If you are forced to use git 'guerilla style', i.e. your company is stuck using cvs for the version control and you use git on your workstation to make life easier, you might consider doing something like this;

CVS=realCvsPath
# commit to the git first
if ($ARGV[0] && $ARGV[0] eq "commit")
{
system 'git commit -a';
}

# execute the appropriate cvs program
# ===================================
exec "$CVS", @ARGV

Calling this file 'cvs' and including it the path before the real CVS command. Otherwise you can have git commits older than the cvs ones, which isn't that useful...