Re: Diff format in packs

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 1, 2006, 10:59 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608011248530.17230@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910607311929j189eb6b9r6a804cc744290fdc@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jon,

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:

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> On 7/31/06, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > would be to use cvs2svn to build the changeset database and then use
> > > cvsps to simply read the changesets out of it and build the git
> > > repository.
> > 
> > Once cvs2svn has the db built, it should be easy to write a
> > perl/python script that mimics the output of cvsps.
> 
> This is an efficiency problem.

In another mail, you asked for a solution for the initial 700MB download. How about doing it like Linux-2.6, namely have a clean cut, and for those who want, they can load the historical repo, too, and graft it onto the current one?

I _think_ that with a new start, incremental git-cvsimport should still work, if you do it cleverly. Obviously, it would _not_ have the full history, but rather add onto the most recent revisions (incremental git-cvsimport detects the revisions to import by author date IIRC).

Note that this method will _not_ work, if there are _new_ branches that cvsps has problems with.

Ciao, Dscho