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Friday, February 12, 2021

Converting CVS to GIT repositories

You need cvs-fast-export tool in your path
All projects in old CVS repositories are listed in all-projects.txt file and it is in you old cvs repos folder.

for a in `cat all-projects.txt`
do
    cd $a
    find .|cvs-fast-export > ~/separate-projects/$a.cfe
    cd ..
done
This will export every project folder as single file in /home/username/separate-projects/ 

Now to import it as git repositories

cd ~/separate-projects/
for a in `ls *.cfe`
do
   
adir=`echo $a|sed s/".cfe"/""/g`
    git init "$adir".git
    cd "$adir".git
    git fast-import < ../$a
    cd ..

done