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Re: cvs2git migration - cloning CVS repository

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Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2009, 22:54 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Michael Haggerty wrote:
>
>> 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).
>

fantastic, really! :) it saves almost half a day of git-cvsimport on vim7 cvs official repository.

Dscho rulez... Kudos...
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Christian
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  1. Rostislav SvobodaFeb 2, 2009
  2. Michael HaggertyFeb 3, 2009
  3. Johannes SchindelinFeb 3, 2009
  4. Michael HaggertyFeb 3, 2009
  5. Christian MICHONFeb 3, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinFeb 3, 2009
  7. Rostislav SvobodaFeb 2, 2009

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