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Some months ago I gave git a first try for developing some stacked core patches. I quickly get used to it and to its nice features (german). Luckily its SVN integration is really nice and simple to use so GIT is even a fine replacement for the usual SVN client. Unfortunately for CVS things are much worse.. :( Poor cvs!

First tries..

I decided to don't go back to CVS for maintaining drupal modules. First I tried using the public GIT mirror of the whole drupal CVS from the French drupal community, however I quickly noted that it was broken for the rules module, so I tried to set up my on mirror. I started using Sam Boyer's scripts, however I had some misc small troubles with them, but more important those scripts copy the whole drupal CVS - but I didn't like to waste ~6 gigs of disk space and the time to sync all the unneeded stuff. So I ended writing my own script based on the instructions in the drupal handbook for maintaining a module with git and Sam's script. After some weeks going back and forth I finally ended up with something useful, so here are my experiences:

What is it about?

Currently I've set the script up to export the drupal CVS of some of my modules to GIT - its automatically pushing to my github account, which is quite convenient. It syncs only the really needed modules using rsync - which is an important step as its greatly speeding up cvsps when exporting from CVS. The nice thing is that it doesn't overwrite any changes not yet in CVS, so I can use the same git repository on github to develop new stuff and export to CVS later on.