NAME
    cpangitify - Convert cpan distribution from BackPAN to a git repository

VERSION
    version 0.07

SYNOPSIS
     % cpangitify Foo::Bar

DESCRIPTION
    This script fetches all known revisions of a distribution from
    CPAN/BackPAN and creates a git repository with one revision and one tag
    for each version of the distribution.

    The idea is to create a starting point for a git work flow when adopting
    a CPAN module for which you don't have access to the original
    repository. It is of course better to import from Subversion or to clone
    an existing git repository, but that may not be an option.

    If the distribution you are migrating changed names during its history,
    simply specify each name it had on the command line. Be sure to specify
    the current name first (this will be used when creating a directory name
    for the repository). For example Mojolicious::Plugin::TtRenderer was
    once called MojoX::Renderer::TT, so you would get both names in the
    history like this:

     % cpangitify Mojolicious::Plugin::TtRenderer MojoX::Renderer::TT

OPTIONS
  --help | -h
    Print out help and exit.

  --version
    Print out version and exit.

CAVEATS
    Currently only works on UNIX like operating systems with rm, cp and a
    tar which automatically decompresses compressed tars.

    Each commit belongs to the CPAN author who submitted the corresponding
    release, therefore "git blame" may not be that useful for the imported
    portion of your new repository history.

    The commits are ordered by date, so where there are interleaving of
    releases that belong to development and production branches this simple
    minded script will probably do the wrong thing.

    Patches are welcome.

SEE ALSO
    Here are some similar projects:

    *   Git::CPAN::Patch

        Comes with a "git cpan import" which does something similar. With
        this incantation I was able to get a repository for YAML (including
        history, but without authors and without the correct dates):

         % mkdir YAML
         % git init .
         % git cpan import --backpan YAML
         % git merge remotes/cpan/master

        One advantage here over "cpangitify" is that you should then later
        be able to import/merge future CPAN releases into yours.
        "Git::CPAN::Patch" also has a bunch of other useful tools for
        creating and submitting patches and is definitely worth checking
        out.

        If you do an internet search for this sort of thing you may see
        references to "git-backpan-init", but this does not appear to be
        part of the Git::CPAN::Patch anymore (I believe "git-import" with
        the "--backpan" option is the equivalent).

    *   gitpan <https://github.com/gitpan>

        Doesn't appear to have been updated in a number of years.

    *   ggoosen's cpan2git <https://github.com/ggoossen/cpan2git>

    The reason I am not using the latter two is that they are designed to
    mirror the whole of CPAN/BackPAN, but I'm mostly just interested in one
    or two distributions here and there.

AUTHOR
    Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Graham Ollis.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.