[Paraview] Github mirror

[Brad King]

Michael Wild wrote:
> 
> 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?

Yes.  I rsync the repo to the machine where it gets imported.

IIRC there is a "cvssuck" tool to mirror a remote repo over
the pserver protocol.

-Brad