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Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Feb 8, 2008, 10:33 UTC
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Paul Gardiner schrieb:
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> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That looks to require going either via svn or mercurial. Is that right?
> And if so, which did you find best?
You are right. Because I'm utterly confused. I actually used fromcvs/togit:
http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg/fromcvs
Please bear with me; I did this about a year ago. Sorry for the noise.
Be warned that fromcvs/togit does not convert tags.
-- Hannes
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  1. Paul GardinerFeb 8, 2008
  2. Karl HasselströmFeb 8, 2008
  3. Michael HaggertyFeb 8, 2008
  4. Johannes SixtFeb 8, 2008
  5. Paul GardinerFeb 8, 2008
  6. Johannes SixtFeb 8, 2008
  7. Paul GardinerFeb 9, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2008
  9. Jakub NarebskiFeb 8, 2008

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