From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:57:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?
Message-ID: <47AC2775.5090403@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <47AC1FDC.9000502@glidos.net>

Paul Gardiner schrieb:
> 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