For some time I was trying to get in touch with git but haven’t got any project to really use it. That is, one I could convert from CVS or SVN and don’t have the other group members hit me.<\/p>\n
Having a needed patch to the LambdaMOO<\/a> server make it a really interesting candidate.<\/p>\n We are going to extract all the versions of the server from Sourceforge<\/a> to create a local git repository and then browse around it.<\/p>\n Installation of the needed packages<\/strong><\/p>\n Let’s go right away to the packages we will need. Start by the base for git.<\/p>\n Then the cvs related package. There is a git tutorial<\/a> that tells you to also install CVSps.<\/p>\n I though this was enough but mindo from MOOsaico warned me I would need just another one<\/p>\n Now we have all the ingredients to cook what we want.<\/p>\n Importing from the CVS repository<\/strong><\/p>\n Let’s fetch the repository from sourceforge. We will use the following command template<\/p>\n making a directory “destination” with the repository from the CVS “module”.<\/p>\n When asked for a password just press enter.<\/p>\n This make take several minutes. Just wait.<\/p>\n Enjoy now the graphically ((Instead of gitk you may prefer giggle: Adding a branch<\/strong><\/p>\n Creating a branch is really difficult in git: you will have to use the … branch command :-)<\/p>\n To make a branch named And you can also see all the existent branches.<\/p>\n But to do some work you must change your context to your branch<\/p>\n Then edit, add, remove files. ((Don’t forget to use the Don’t forget to save your changes in the repository and afterwards if you want switch back to the master branch.<\/p>\n To play a bit more check melo’s Git starters<\/a><\/em> post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For some time I was trying to get in touch with git but haven’t got any project to really use it. That is, one I could convert from CVS or SVN and don’t have the other group members hit me.… Continue Reading \r\n$ sudo apt-get install git-core<\/pre>\n
\r\nsudo apt-get install cvs cvsps<\/pre>\n
\r\nsudo apt-get install git-cvs<\/pre>\n
\r\ngit cvsimport -C
\r\n$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@lambdamoo.cvs.sourceforge.net:\/cvsroot\/lambdamoo login\r\n$ git cvsimport -d:pserver:anonymous@lambdamoo.cvs.sourceforge.net:\/cvsroot\/lambdamoo -C server-git server\r\nInitialized empty Git repository in \/home\/paf\/src\/lambdamoo\/server-git\/.git\/\r\nCounting objects: 1395, done.\r\nCompressing objects: 100% (1393\/1393), done.\r\nWriting objects: 100% (1395\/1395), done.\r\nTotal 1395 (delta 1077), reused 0 (delta 0)<\/pre>\n
\r\ncd server-git\r\ngitk<\/pre>\n
sudo apt-get install giggle<\/code>)) view of the revisions.<\/p>\niconv<\/code> type<\/p>\n\r\n$ git branch iconv\r\n$ git branch\r\nAUTOCONF_TWO\r\nCONSTANTS\r\nFLOATSUSPEND\r\nINLINEPC\r\nPARC\r\nUNSAFE_OPTS\r\nWAIF\r\nWROGUE\r\niconv\r\n* master\r\norigin<\/pre>\n
\r\n$ git checkout iconv\r\nSwitched to branch \"iconv\"<\/pre>\n
add<\/code> command and check the git tutorial<\/a> to learn more.))<\/p>\n\r\n$ git commit -a\r\n$ git checkout master<\/pre>\n