Re: cvs2git migration - cloning CVS repository

From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Feb 3, 2009, 14:18 UTC
Message-ID: <49885248.6020805@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902031348570.6573@intel-tinevez-2-302>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Michael Haggerty wrote:
>> If you do not have filesystem access to your CVS repository, you might 
>> be able to clone it using CVSSuck [2,3].
> 
> A substantially faster option would be to go with cvsclone:
> 
> 	http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/rtc/cvsclone.l
> 
> (in my case, cvsclone was not only faster, but it actually worked, too, 
> which is more than I could say of CVSSuck).
> 
> Note: it only works for anonymous access so far.
> 
> Note also: for my use case, it was necessary to edit the rlog, as those 
> brilliant geniuses included verbatim cvs logs for files they moved. *sigh*
> If you need something like that, I can give you my patched version.

Thanks for the pointer.  I just added it to the cvs2svn/cvs2git FAQ [1].

Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html