Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?
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> I'm trying to convert a huge cvs repository. I've left cvsps running for
> days. First attempt, stderr filled my disc with warnings about tags that
> couldn't be associated with any one commit, without producing anything
> from stdout. I'm now redirecting stderr to /dev/null, but it still just
> sits there producing nothing. Is git-cvsimport infeasible for large
> repositories, or are there tricks I might use?
I've used fast-export (not git-fast-export) to convert a CVS repository:
http://repo.or.cz/w/fast-export.git
It worked better than git-cvsimport because the repository was a real mess.
-- Hannes
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>