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Migrating a CVS module to Git.

This page provides some instructions on how to migrate a module from CVS to git using the parsecvs utility (which desperately needs UI work).

Prepare the community

The first thing to do is pick a reasonable time to make the transition. A week before a major release of either X.org or the module itself is probably not the best plan. With a timeframe in mind, coordinate with other major maintainers of the module and select a target date. Send mail to your mailing list announcing your intention and include the proposed schedule. You should also remind developers of the expected sequence of events so no-one is surprised (or at least the surprise will be their fault for skipping over your carefully delivered email). Here's the usual sequence of events:

  1. Send migration warning email (this mail)
  2. Wait for selected date
  3. Make the CVS tree read-only
  4. Convert the tree using parsecvs
  5. Stick warning signs in CVS
  6. Push exported tree to kemper

Make CVS tree read-only

Ask an admin to make the CVS tree read-only on kemper, and make you a tarball of the repository.

Convert tree using parsecvs

OK, this tool is primitive, but handles our broken CVS bits better than git-cvsimport.

  1. Ensure edit-change-log (from parsecvs) is in your path. This script takes ?ChangeLog-style commit messages and converts them to plain text.
  2. Create a directory for the module, cd to it.
  3. Create an Authors file, similar to xorg-Authors in the parsecvs tree.
  4. Run the import process:
    • find cvsrepodir/ -name '*,v' | parsecvs
  5. Verify the results
    • gitk --all
    • git-checkout master
    • diff -r .
  6. Prepare the git tree for publication
    • chmod +x .git/hooks/post-update
    • fix up the update hook, chmod +x .git/hooks/update

Stick warning signs in CVS

  1. Edit configure.ac in the CVS version, adding this just before the final AC_OUTPUT call:

    AC_MSG_ERROR([The $module is now maintained at:] [ git://git.freedesktop.org/git/reponame] [Please use that repository.]

  2. Temporarily make CVS writeable

  3. Commit change

Export git tree

  1. Get the admins to create a new git repository for you.
  2. git push --force --all ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/reponame