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

From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Dec 12, 2007, 15:58 UTC
Message-ID: <47600521.7080604@alum.mit.edu>
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 [...]
> 
> Is there some kind of replacement for cvsps which works more reliably?

Yes, cvs2svn, which can now also output to git. But note: cvs2svn only supports one-time conversions (not incremental), you need to use the trunk version of cvs2svn, and using it to convert to git is not yet documented very well. See the following thread:

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118592701426175&w=4

Please let us know how it goes!

Michael