From: Pierre Habouzit Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:20:42 GMT Subject: Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] bzr-fastimport plugin, yet another Bazaar import option] 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: > * Pierre Habouzit [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. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org