Re: cvs2svn conversion directly to git ready for experimentation

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Aug 2, 2007, 19:13 UTC
Message-ID: <EDE86758-FFD0-4CED-A2C9-033FA13DD3B6@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <46B215E2.8010307@fs.ei.tum.de>

Simon,

On Aug 2, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

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> Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>>   fromcvs's togit surrendered during the import.
>>   fromcvs's tohg accepted more of the history, but finally
>>     surrendered as well.
>
> Which repo is it you are converting?  Is this available somewhere?

Unfortunately not, the content is a proprietary software package.

> I'd appreciate any reports concerning "surrenders" of fromcvs.   
> Additionally, it seems strange that tohg should have worked  
> "better" than togit, as these are basically just different backends.

Some time passed since I did the tests. I had no time to do a detailed investigation then. I'll have more time now and will prepare a bug report, which is not easy because I can't sent you the cvs repo, sorry. Any hints what would be most helpful for you?

I remember that togit reported a broken pipe. My feeling was that git-fastimport aborted, which may be reason why tohg worked better. I didn't try to understand more details. I never read ruby code before and it was already a challenge for me to get everything up and running (rcs, rbtree).

	Steffen