Re: What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Dec 12, 2007, 15:54 UTC
Message-ID: <4760041D.4030606@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <824peojm4g.fsf@mid.bfk.de>

Florian Weimer wrote:

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> This is probably more of a cvsps question than a GIT question, but
> AFAICT, the cvsps upstream is mostly inactive these days.
> 
> I tried to import the PostgreSQL repository, using
> 
>   git-cvsimport  -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot -k -C pgsql pgsql
> 
> However, after a bit of activity, git-cvsimport hangs at the following
> line
> 
>   cvs rlog: Logging pgsql/src/win32
> 
> strace doesn't show any system call activtiy in the cvsps process
> (which consumes 100% CPU).  cvsps is Debian's 2.1-2 version.
> 
> Is there some kind of replacement for cvsps which works more reliably?
>

I think "git fast-import" has a CVS frontend. I'm not sure though, so I leave finding out and trying it as an exercise for you ;-)

It requires file access to the CVS repository, afaiu.

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