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Add CVS checkout to Git ref verifier
catap May 19, 2026
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Refine CVS branch and tag import semantics
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Expand Up @@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ A small python script which imports cvs tree into git repository.
Pros:
- Small footprint
- Supports incremental import. It's very fast
- Converts tags on HEAD
- Converts all tags and CVS branches to Git branches with `-A`
- Converts CVS branches and tags with `-A`
- Everything is done in memory

An alternative to
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Usage
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usage: cvs2gitdump [-aAh] [-z fuzz] [-e email_domain]
[-E log_encodings] [-k rcs_keywords] [-b branch]
[-m module] [-l last_revision]
usage: cvs2gitdump [-aAh] [-z fuzz] [-e email_domain] [-E log_encodings]
[-k rcs_keywords] [-b branch] [-m module] [-l last_revision]
cvsroot [git_dir]


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* -A

Convert all tags and CVS branches.
Convert CVS branches and tags. Branches and tags are reset to generated
commits. No extra commits are synthesized to normalize CVS branch/tag
snapshots or symbol-expanded keyword content.

* -b branch

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% doas cvsync
% python cvs2svndump.py -k OpenBSD /cvs/openbsd/src file:///svnrepo vendor/openbsd/head/src > openbsd2.dump
% svnadmin load /svnrepo < openbsd2.dump

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