[Paraview] Github mirror

[Michael Wild]

On 1. Nov, 2009, at 17:00 , Brad King wrote:

> Michael Wild wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity: Do you use the -k flag with git-cvsimport?  
>> The man-page says that it's highly recommended, but broke things  
>> for me.
>
> We're not using git-cvsimport.  The mirror is converted incrementally
> from CVS using fromcvs/togit.  We are using it's "-kk" option to  
> remove
> CVS keyword replacement values ($Revision: 1.1$ becomes just  
> $Revision$).
>
> I've been tracking several projects with fromcvs/togit for almost two
> years.  After the author (quickly!) fixed a couple bugs I discovered
> in the first few months of use, it has been very solid.  I've even
> re-converted from scratch and obtained the exact same commit sha1s.
> It doesn't do cvs tags, but it does do branches very well.
>
> -Brad

But that only works with a local CVS repository, right?

Michael