Re: [gentoo-core] [gentoo-dev] Git Migration: go-live!

[Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 12:04:43 +0200 Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera
(klondike) wrote:
> El 09/08/15 a las 12:02, Mike Frysinger escribió:
> > On 09 Aug 2015 11:31, Marc Schiffbauer wrote:
> >> * Michael Weber schrieb am 09.08.15 um 11:00 Uhr:
> >>> On 08/09/2015 07:36 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> >>>> I'm only 90% sure that everything works, but I've spent almost the 
> >>>> entire day on it, and there's more to go tomorrow.
> >>> Thanks a lot!
> >>>
> >>> use case: my cvs tree had uncommitted ebuild work (yes, you caught me
> >>> actually doing something).
> >>> now `cvs diff` no longer works, how can i track down my local changes?
> >>> besides diffing against git tree, brain memory aka shell history and
> >>> find -newer?
> >> I'd say: 
> >>
> >> - tar your *.ebuild and files/* stuff away
> >> - then "git clone" the new git repo.
> >> - untar your files in the new git repo
> >> - use "git diff"
> > there will be a ton of cvs keyword noise in there though.  need to run
> > a sed on the files to clear it out.
> >
> > it also will include noise where your local checkout was behind the latest
> > tree, so it'll only really work if you ran `cvs up` in the whole tree just
> > before it was shutdown.
> > -mike
> Out of curiosity, is it impossible to have a read only CVS server with
> the state at the time of the freeze?
 
Seconded here. Read-only CVS should not consume much resources, but
will facilitate migration.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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