This is for removal of files before pushing it to GIT repository(on cloud).

We usually have CVS hosted in-house and are nowadays moving to GIT either on cloud or GIT in-premise. When we move from on-premise to cloud, we would want to remove secret file(usually containing database username, password, IP addresses, etc) from code before moving to the cloud.

I've created this script where you will have to specify CVS and GIT parameters.

You'll need the git and git-cvs packages.

sudo yum install git-cvs

This example uses the project1 project from CVS, but you can substitute any other module.

To avoid hammering the remote pserver, I just copied the CVS directory straight from the server to a local directory. You can specify the remote pserver as an argument to -d but it's rather slow.

# use your own project and username...
module=project1
cvsusername=MKumar
mkdir -p cvs/CVSROOT # CVS will consider cvs to be a valid repo now
scp -r $cvsusername@10.40.40.40:/usr/webdev/cvsroot/$module cvs

Where 10.40.40.40 = IP address of CVS server.

# filter is a set of python regular expressions separated by '|', NOT a file glob.
filter='.*jar|databaseConfig.*|secrets.properties|keysHelper.*'
( mkdir -p git/"$module" && cd git/"$module" && git cvsimport -v -a -k -S "$filter" -d `realpath ../..`/cvs "$module" )

-v verbose -a all -k kill keywords -d the cvsroot directory; with a remote pserver, this would be something like :pserver:[email protected]:/usr/webdev/cvsroot -S skip files using (python) regular expression; in this case I intend to convert this project to maven, so I've excluded jar files as well as config files which contain passwords and filtering step is completely optional.

Check git and CVS versions, and verify that your PATH isn't occluded, since we want to use pure cygwin binaries here.

 $ which git
/usr/bin/git
$ which cvs
/usr/bin/cvs

$ git --version
git version 2.17.0
$ cvs --version 

Step 1 - replace cvs and git credentials in start.sh file.

Step 2 - mention your secret files for removal into conversion.sh

./start.sh  or sh start.sh