I am stuck with cvs (don't ask!) and I was thinking that out of all the goodness of git, there is one that could be approximated reasonably enough: incremental addition of changes, à la git add -p followed by git commit. Before I try to hack together a solution, does anyone know of an implementation of such a feature?
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Are you looking for something like [this](https://github.com/ustuehler/git-cvs)? – Tom Lord Jul 05 '17 at 15:33
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Do you have a positive experience with it? It requires direct access to the cvs repo files, doesn't it? – Jul 05 '17 at 15:45
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This isn't a feature available in CVS unfortunately. – Burhan Ali Jul 09 '17 at 10:35
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If I were in your situation, I would consider using a git interface to a cvs repository.
Best practices for using git with CVS cvs
I do not have experience doing this, so there may be some hidden gotchas I don't know about that would prevent it from working for you, but that is where I would start.
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I have read a lot of that stuff, yes, but I would then need the ability to incrementally import new cvs commits into the converted git repo: often and fast. Unfortunately I haven't found any tool that can correctly convert the repo I have to deal with in the first place and do such incremental imports: `cvs2git` is great but not incremental; `git cvsimport` is obsolete and erroneous; `fromcvs` ([here](https://github.com/corecode/fromcvs)) creates spurious 'repo-copy' commits after the first time. – Jul 05 '17 at 15:42
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Thanks to you guys, @Tom Lord and @emory, I got motivated to search again for some tool that could incrementally import cvs to git, and I have found one that seem to work fast enough and reliably enough, at least on the repo I have to deal with. I haven't seen it mentioned much, hence that answer. It's called crap-clone (sense of humour!?) and the git repo is https://github.com/rcls/crap.