Is there any provision for converting .cvsignore files to .gitignore file?

cvs, cvs2git, git, ignore

Solution

Here's a Bash script which will look at the .cvsignore files in the directory tree and add their patterns to the top-level .gitignore file. It expects that the .cvsignore files contain only one pattern per line (apparently .cvsignore files allow multiple patterns in one line):

for f in `find . -name .cvsignore | sort `; do
    dir=`dirname $f | sed -r 's:^\.::'`
    cat $f | awk '{print "'$dir'/"$1}' >> .gitignore
done

In addition you have to add the default CVS ignore patterns from http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.23/cvs_18.html#SEC191.

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