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NAME

       cvs2git - convert a cvs repository into a git repository

SYNOPSIS

       cvs2git [OPTION]... OUTPUT-OPTIONS CVS-REPOS-PATH
       cvs2git [OPTION]... --options=PATH

DESCRIPTION

       Create  a new git repository based on the version history stored in a CVS repository. Each
       CVS commit will be mirrored in the git repository, including such information as  date  of
       commit and id of the committer.

       The output of this program are a "blobfile" and a "dumpfile", which together can be loaded
       into a git repository using "git fast-import".

       CVS-REPOS-PATH is the filesystem path of the part of the CVS repository that you  want  to
       convert.  This path doesn't have to be the top level directory of a CVS repository; it can
       point at a project within a repository, in which case only that project will be converted.
       This  path  or  one of its parent directories has to contain a subdirectory called CVSROOT
       (though the CVSROOT directory can be empty).

       It is not possible directly to convert a CVS repository to  which  you  only  have  remote
       access,  but  the  FAQ describes tools that may be used to create a local copy of a remote
       CVS repository.

OPTIONS

CONFIGURATION VIA OPTIONS FILE

       --options=path
              Read the conversion options from path instead of from the command line. This option
              allows  far more conversion flexibility than can be achieved using the command-line
              alone. See the documentation for more information. Only the following  command-line
              options  are  allowed  in  combination  with  --options:  -h/--help, --help-passes,
              --version,  -v/--verbose,  -q/--quiet,  -p/--pass/--passes,  --dry-run,  --profile,
              --trunk-only,  --encoding,  and  --fallback-encoding.  Options are processed in the
              order specified on the command line.

OUTPUT OPTIONS

       --blobfile=path
              Write the "blob" data (containing revision contents) to path.

       --dumpfile=path
              Write the revision data (branches and commits) to path.

       --dry-run
              Do not create any output; just print what would happen.

CONVERSION OPTIONS

       --trunk-only
              Convert only trunk commits, not tags nor branches.

       --encoding=enc
              Use encoding as the encoding for filenames, log messages, and author names  in  the
              CVS repos. This option may be specified multiple times, in which case the encodings
              are   tried   in    order    until    one    succeeds.    Default:    ascii.    See
              http://docs.python.org/lib/standard-encodings.html  for  a  list  of other standard
              encodings.

       --fallback-encoding=enc
              If none of the encodings specified with --encoding succeed in  decoding  an  author
              name  or log message, then fall back to using encoding in lossy 'replace' mode. Use
              of this option may cause information to  be  lost,  but  at  least  it  allows  the
              conversion  to  run  to  completion.  This  option only affects the encoding of log
              messages and author names; there is no fallback encoding for filenames.  (By  using
              an  --options  file,  it is possible to specify a fallback encoding for filenames.)
              Default: disabled.

       --retain-conflicting-attic-files
              If a file appears both inside an outside of the CVS attic, retain the attic version
              in  an  SVN  subdirectory  called 'Attic'. (Normally this situation is treated as a
              fatal error.)

SYMBOL HANDLING

       --symbol-transform=p:s
              Transform RCS/CVS symbol names before entering them into Subversion.  pattern is  a
              Python  regexp  pattern that is matches against the entire symbol name; replacement
              is a replacement using Python's regexp reference syntax. You may specify any number
              of these options; they will be applied in the order given on the command line.

       --symbol-hints=path
              Read  symbol  conversion  hints  from  path.  The format of path is the same as the
              format output by --write-symbol-info, namely a  text  file  with  four  whitespace-
              separated columns: project-id, symbol, conversion, and parent-lod-name.  project-id
              is the numerical ID of the project to which the symbol belongs,  counting  from  0.
              project-id  can  be set to '.' if project-specificity is not needed. symbol-name is
              the name of the symbol being specified. conversion specifies how the symbol  should
              be  converted,  and  can  be  one  of  the values 'branch', 'tag', or ´exclude'. If
              conversion is '.', then this rule does not affect  how  the  symbol  is  converted.
              parent-lod-name  is the name of the symbol from which this symbol should sprout, or
              '.trunk.' if the symbol should sprout from trunk. If parent-lod-name is omitted  or
              '.',  then  this rule does not affect the preferred parent of this symbol. The file
              may contain  blank  lines  or  comment  lines  (lines  whose  first  non-whitespace
              character is '#').

       --symbol-default=opt
              Specify  how  to convert ambiguous symbols (those that appear in the CVS archive as
              both branches and tags).  opt  must  be  'heuristic'  (decide  how  to  treat  each
              ambiguous  symbol  based on whether it was used more often as a branch/tag in CVS),
              'strict' (no default; every ambiguous symbol has  to  be  resolved  manually  using
              --force-branch,  --force-tag, or --exclude), 'branch' (treat every ambiguous symbol
              as a branch), 'tag' (treat every ambiguous symbol as a tag), or 'exclude'  (do  not
              convert ambiguous symbols). The default is 'heuristic'.

       --force-branch=regexp
              Force symbols whose names match regexp to be branches.  regexp must match the whole
              symbol name.

       --force-tag=regexp
              Force symbols whose names match regexp to be tags.  regexp  must  match  the  whole
              symbol name.

       --exclude=regexp
              Exclude branches and tags whose names match regexp from the conversion. regexp must
              match the whole symbol name.

       --keep-trivial-imports
              Do not exclude branches that were only used for a single import. (By  default  such
              branches  are excluded because they are usually created by the inappropriate use of
              cvs import.)

SUBVERSION PROPERTIES

       --username=name
              Set the default username to name when cvs2svn needs to generate a commit for  which
              CVS  does  not  record  the original username. This happens when a branch or tag is
              created. The default is to use no author at all for such commits.

       --auto-props=file
              Specify a file in the  format  of  Subversion's  config  file,  whose  [auto-props]
              section  can  be  used  to  set  arbitrary  properties  on  files in the Subversion
              repository based on their filenames.  (The  [auto-props]  section  header  must  be
              present;  other  sections  of  the  config  file,  including  the enable-auto-props
              setting, are ignored.)  Filenames  are  matched  to  the  filename  patterns  case-
              insensitively.

       --mime-types=file
              Specify an apache-style mime.types file for setting svn:mime-type.

       --eol-from-mime-type
              For files that don't have the kb expansion mode but have a known mime type, set the
              eol-style based on the mime type. For such files, set svn:eol-style to "native"  if
              the  mime  type  begins with "text/", and leave it unset (i.e., no EOL translation)
              otherwise. Files with unknown mime types are not  affected  by  this  option.  This
              option has no effect unless the --mime-types option is also specified.

       --default-eol=style
              Set  svn:eol-style  to  style for files that don't have the CVS ´kb' expansion mode
              and whose end-of-line translation mode hasn't been determined by one of  the  other
              options. style must be 'binary' (default), 'native', 'CRLF', 'LF', or 'CR'.

       --keywords-off
              By  default, cvs2svn sets svn:keywords on CVS files to "author id date" if the mode
              of the RCS file in question is either kv, kvl or unset. If you use the  --keywords-
              off  switch,  cvs2svn  will  not set svn:keywords for any file. While this will not
              touch the keywords in the contents of your files, Subversion will not expand them.

       --keep-cvsignore
              Include .cvsignore files in the output. (Normally they are unneeded because cvs2svn
              sets the corresponding svn:ignore properties.)

       --cvs-revnums
              Record  CVS revision numbers as file properties in the Subversion repository. (Note
              that unless it is removed explicitly, the last  CVS  revision  number  will  remain
              associated with the file even after the file is changed within Subversion.)

EXTRACTION OPTIONS

       --use-cvs
              Use  CVS to extract revision contents. This option is slower than --use-internal-co
              or --use-rcs.

       --use-rcs
              Use RCS 'co' to extract revision contents. This option is faster than --use-cvs but
              fails in some cases.

       --use-external-blob-generator
              Use  an  external Python program to extract the file revision contents from the RCS
              files and output them to the blobfile. This option is much faster than --use-rcs or
              --use-cvs  but  leaves  keywords  unexpanded and requires a separate, seekable blob
              file to write to in parallel to the main cvs2git script.

ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS

       --tmpdir=path
              Set the path to use for temporary data. Default is a directory  called  cvs2svn-tmp
              under the current directory.

       --co=path
              Path to the co program. (co is needed if the --use-rcs option is used.)

       --cvs=path
              Path to the cvs program. (cvs is needed if the --use-cvs option is used.)

PARTIAL CONVERSIONS

       --pass=pass
              Execute  only  pass  pass  of  the  conversion. pass can be specified by name or by
              number (see --help-passes).

       -p [start]:[end], --passes=[start]:[end]
              Execute passes start through end of the conversion (inclusive). start and  end  can
              be  specified by name or by number (see --help-passes). If start or end is missing,
              it defaults to the first or last pass, respectively. For this to work  the  earlier
              passes  must  have  been  completed  before  on  the  same  CVS repository, and the
              generated data files must be in the temporary directory (see --tmpdir).

INFORMATION OPTIONS

       --version
              Print the version number.

       -h, --help
              Print the usage message and exit with success.

       --help-passes
              Print the numbers and names of the conversion passes and exit with success.

       --man  Output the unix-style manpage for this program to standard output.

       -v, --verbose
              Print more information while running. This option may be specified twice to  output
              voluminous debugging information.

       -q, --quiet
              Print  less  information  while  running.  This  option  may  be specified twice to
              suppress all non-error output.

       --write-symbol-info=path
              Write to path symbol statistics and information about how  symbols  were  converted
              during CollateSymbolsPass.

       --skip-cleanup
              Prevent the deletion of temporary files.

       --profile
              Profile with 'cProfile' (into file cvs2svn.cProfile).

FILES

       A directory called cvs2svn-tmp (or the directory specified by --tmpdir) is used as scratch
       space for temporary data files.

AUTHORS

       Main authors are:
       C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>
       Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>
       Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu>
       Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>
       Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net>
       Brian Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com>
       Tobias Ringström <tobias@ringstrom.mine.nu>
       Karl Fogel <kfogel@collab.net>
       Erik Hülsmann <e.huelsmann@gmx.net>
       David Summers <david@summersoft.fay.ar.us>
       Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

       Manpage  was  written  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux  system  by  Laszlo  'GCS'  Boszormenyi
       <gcs@debian.org> (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       cvs(1), git(1), git-fast-import(1)