From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
To: Yojoa <dmoore@vailsys.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CVSImport - spaces in CVS path
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 01:59:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161201095933.GA1550@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480539395581-7657459.post@n2.nabble.com>
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 01:56:35PM -0700, Yojoa wrote:
> I'm in the process of moving an entire collection of cvs modules into git.
> I'm working in Mac Yosemite. Everything is working fine except for one
> thing. A couple of the CVS modules have spaces in the paths. Below is what
> my command line looks like. When the path has spaces I've tried putting it
> in single and double quotes and using escape characters. None of that
> matters. I always get a message that it can't read dir/dir/path and then
> messages that it can't find the modules "with" or "spaces".
>
> git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:MYLOGIN:/usr/local/cvsroot/
> dir/dir/PathWithNoSpaces/dir
>
> git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:MYLOGIN:/usr/local/cvsroot/ dir/dir/path with
> spaces/dir
Try cvs-fast-export + cvsconvert.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/cvs-fast-export/
http://www.catb.org/~esr/cvs-fast-export/cvsconvert.html
--
David
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2016-11-30 20:56 CVSImport - spaces in CVS path Yojoa
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