Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh(a)wantstofly.org> wrote:
For a while now, I've been maintaining a git conversion of the
Fedora CVS tree, pulling in a copy of the CVS tree via rsync, and
running some local scripts to convert that to git, incrementally
updating the git tree as commits are made to the CVS tree.
(For more background info, see here:)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-November/msg00561....
Nice!
Maintaining an accurate cvs->git mirror is not trivial (I know, from
experience with the full repositories of coreutils, emacs, libc, and a
few more). If you can do it well and keep it accurate, then it'd make
a fine and very welcome service.
I've found that the initial conversion works best with cvsparse.
It's _much_ more efficient than git-cvsimport, and more reliable, too.