Converting RCS to Git

gistfile1.sh

# http://xrtc.net/f/projects/rcs-to-git.shtml

$ mkdir repos.cvs repos.source
$ cvs -d /path/to/repos.cvs/ init
$ (cd repos && find . -type d -exec mkdir /path/to/repos.cvs/{} \;)
$ (cd repos.source && CVSROOT=/path/to/repos.cvs/ cvs import -m "Initial CVS import" repos.source TICALC start)
$ (cd repos && find . -type f -exec cp {} /path/to/repos.cvs/{} \;)
$ CVSROOT=/path/to/repos.cvs git cvsimport -C . repos.source


# If there are any commit message written in multi-byte character, use cvs2svn
# http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html

$ svn co --username=guest --password="" http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/svn/cvs2svn/trunk cvs2svn-trunk
$ cd cvs2svn-trunk
$ mkdir cvs2svn-tmp
$ ./cvs2git --blobfile=cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat --dumpfile=cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat --fallback-encoding=utf_8 --username=[username] --use-rcs /path/to/rcs/repos
$ mkdir myproject.git
$ cd myproject.git
$ git init --bare
$ git fast-import --export-marks=../cvs2svn-tmp/git-marks.dat < ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat
$ git fast-import --import-marks=../cvs2svn-tmp/git-marks.dat < ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat