From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:48:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?
Message-ID: <20080208094812.GA9666@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <47AC1FDC.9000502@glidos.net>

On 2008-02-08 09:24:44 +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote:

> I'm trying to convert a huge cvs repository. I've left cvsps running
> for days. First attempt, stderr filled my disc with warnings about
> tags that couldn't be associated with any one commit, without
> producing anything from stdout. I'm now redirecting stderr to
> /dev/null, but it still just sits there producing nothing. Is
> git-cvsimport infeasible for large repositories, or are there tricks
> I might use?

This topic comes up on the list every once in a while; try searching
the list archives.

I seem to recall that for heavy imports, the Subversion CVS importer
is popular. I don't know if it can give you a git repository directly,
or if you'll have to go via svn.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle