Importing CVS into git on Mac OS X
It's pretty simple, but you need to set some git config variables to make the import go smoothly.
First up, you need cvsps. The currently stable cvsps version 2.1 works better with the git version 1.7.4.4, that Xcode gave me, so download it.
Building cvsps is just make and installing into /usr/local is just sudo make install
Then get your CVSROOT environment variable set properly.
Finally you need to configure some variables in git, as they may be set to values, that preclude a working import. Here 's a shell script, which isn't foolproof, but useful enough.
#! /bin/sh rm -rf .git # # my settings # core.autocrlf=input # core.safecrlf=true # old_autocrlf=`git config --get core.autocrlf` old_safecrlf=`git config --get core.safecrlf` old_encoding=`git config --get i18n.commitencoding` git config --global core.autocrlf false git config --global core.safecrlf false git config --global i18n.commitencoding MacRoman git cvsimport $* if [ "$old_autocrlf" != "" ] then git config --global core.autocrlf "$old_autocrlf" else git config --global --unset core.autocrlf fi if [ "$old_safecrlf" != "" ] then git config --global core.safecrlf "$old_safecrlf" else git config --global --unset core.safecrlf fi if [ "$old_encoding" != "" ] then git config --global i18n.commitencoding "$old_encoding" else git config --global --unset i18n.commitencoding fi