From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Tie a CVS-aware app into GIT? Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:30:29 +0200 Message-ID: <200908122230.29363.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: david.hagood@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 12 22:30:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MbKT2-00088e-Po for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:30:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754417AbZHLUab (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:30:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751677AbZHLUaa (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:30:30 -0400 Received: from mail.dewire.com ([83.140.172.130]:27267 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751187AbZHLUaa (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:30:30 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE311434E8A; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:30:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino.dewire.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id b5FE5JK3eSVS; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:30:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sleipner.localnet (unknown [10.9.0.3]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EBC8027E8; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:30:29 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: onsdag 12 augusti 2009 20:01:45 skrev david.hagood@gmail.com: > I have an application (closed source, unfortunately) that can use CVS to > manage its files (specifically, Enterprise Architect by Sparx). > > I'd rather use GIT to manage the files, but EA doesn't "speak" git - just > CVS and Subversion (and Microsoft's SCC protocol, but...) > > Are there any programs which > 1) accept the same command line parameters as CVS or Subversion > and > 2) access a GIT repository. > > git-svn is almost exactly NOT what I need, as it accepts "git" type > command line parameters and access a SVN repo, rather than accepting SVN > command line parameters and accessing a GIT repo. > > Now, obviously, such a tool wouldn't have access to all the things that > GIT can do, and that is NOT what I am expecting - what I want is just to > enable EA to do the things it needs to do, namely adding/removing/moving > files from a repo. Branching, commits, and so on can be done manually. > > I've thought about git-cvsserver as a solution, but I don't know if it can > be run on a local machine to access a local repository. What makes you there would be an issue here? -- robin