From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:33:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?
Message-ID: <47AC2FF6.1030103@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <47AC2AC3.6020704@glidos.net>

Paul Gardiner schrieb:
> 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