Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] bzr-fastimport plugin, yet another Bazaar import option]

From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Feb 22, 2008, 18:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20080222182041.GB4555@artemis.madism.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080222144415.GA19974@yugib.highrise.ca>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:44:15PM +0000, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

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> * Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> [080201 08:20]:
>  
> >   /me opens bigs ears and eyes: does this mean that we have an
> > incremental importer of CVS based on git-fast-import ? I mean I'm really
> > interested into that, as git-cvsimport is really broken with the glibc
> > CVS tree, and as the glibc CVSROOT is rsync-able, an incremental
> > importer that has access to the CVSROOT RCS files is probably the most
> > efficient way.
> 
> In the repository I convert (PostgreSQL), I'm using the ruby
> fromcvs/togit converter, which has worked well, because git-cvsimport
> doesn't work.

  Well, last time I tried, it exploded miserably (big fat OOM) because
glibc CVS repository comes back to 1984 or so, and has a very nasty big
fat Changelog with literally thousands of modifications.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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