Re: [Qemu-devel] [ARM SMBIOS V1 PATCH 0/6] SMBIOS Support for ARM

[Jean Delvare]

On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 11:16:10 +0300, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote:
> On 06.08.15 11:07, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > On 08/06/15 00:03, Jean Delvare wrote:
> >> On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 22:39:57 +0300, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote:
> >>> On 05.08.15 21:35, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> >>>> The userspace tools are in a more messy state AFAICT. For example I'm
> >>>> unable to locate a *git* repository for upstream dmidecode. But, Ivan
> >>>> and Roy should know better (Cc'd).
> >>>
> >>> There is no git repo for dmidecode.
> >>> Only CVS: http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=dmidecode
> >>
> >> Correct. Savannah support git now so it should be possible to convert
> >> the CVS repository to git, and I'm all for it if it makes users and
> >> potential contributors happy.
> >
> > Yes, please do that, if you can find the time.
> >
> >> Just I don't know how this is done and
> >> did not have the time to look into it so far.
> >
> > I've never done it myself, so the only thing I could do to help is
> > google it for you, which would be useless. :)
> 
> FYI
> git-cvsimport
> Сonversion itself may take not so much time
> 
> http://www.gromacs.org/Developer_Zone/Git/Migrating_a_CVS_repository_to_GIT
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11362676/how-to-import-a-cvs-repository-in-git-and-use-it-locally
> 
> http://git-scm.com/docs/git-cvsimport

I know the command, I'm more interested in how to do it (properly) in
Savannah. There are many options and I want the conversion to be as
good as possible. Once the initial git repository is pushed to
Savannah, there is no way back. This is where I would welcome hints and
suggestions, if others have gone through the same process for other
Savannah projects already.

I tried following the instructions from:

http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit/

(section Importing from CVS) and it looks promising locally. Now I must
figure out how to feed the result back into Savannah. And then ideally
turn the CVS repository read-only, but I can't seem to find any option
in the Savannah administration page to do that.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support