Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?

From: Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>
Date: Feb 9, 2008, 08:32 UTC
Message-ID: <47AD6513.2040609@glidos.net>
In-Reply-To: <47AC2FF6.1030103@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> 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.

That's amazing. Less than an hour to for the initial conversion, and just minutes to progressively sync up.

Thanks to everyone for all the usefull feedback I've received here.

Cheers,
	Paul.