From 1187ec99b93aefc3bfb6e360d285245745e1e390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Keeping Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:18:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] git-cvsimport.txt: cvsps-2 is deprecated git-cvsimport relies on version 2 of cvsps and does not work with the new version 3. Since cvsps 3.x does not currently work as well as version 2 for incremental import, document this fact. Specifically, there is no way to make new git-cvsimport that supports cvsps 3.x and have a seamless transition for existing users since cvsps 3.x needs a time from which to continue importing and git-cvsimport does not save the time of the last import or import into a specific namespace so there is no safe way to calculate the time of the last import. Signed-off-by: John Keeping Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt index 98d9881d7..fd1e613d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt @@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- +*WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered +deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later. If you are +performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using +link:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or +link:https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs]. + Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new repository, or incrementally import into an existing one. -- 2.26.2