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Re: Best way to merge two repos with same content, different history

From
Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 5, 2009, 17:19 UTC
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 19:10, Kelly F. Hickel<kfh@mqsoftware.com> wrote:
> Bost,
>        Thanks, but I'm already working with a local copy of the CVS repo.  I've corresponded with Michael Haggerty about the time this takes, and there just doesn't seem to be any way to improve the speed, without making some fairly drastic changes to cvs2git.
uhm, see below
Bost

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 14:55, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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>> If you do not have filesystem access to your CVS repository, you might
>> be able to clone it using CVSSuck [2,3].
>
> A substantially faster option would be to go with cvsclone:
>
>        http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/rtc/cvsclone.l
>
> (in my case, cvsclone was not only faster, but it actually worked, too,
> which is more than I could say of CVSSuck).
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  1. Kelly F. HickelJun 5, 2009
  2. Rostislav SvobodaJun 5, 2009
  3. Kelly F. HickelJun 5, 2009
  4. Rostislav SvobodaJun 5, 2009
  5. Robin H. JohnsonJun 5, 2009
  6. Kelly F. HickelJun 5, 2009
  7. Robin H. JohnsonJun 5, 2009
  8. Kelly F. HickelJun 5, 2009
  9. Michael HaggertyJun 19, 2009
  10. Avery PennarunJun 5, 2009
  11. Kelly F. HickelJun 5, 2009
  12. Markus HeidelbergJun 5, 2009

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