From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:02:18 GMT
Subject: Re: cvs2git migration - cloning CVS repository
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902040000000.9822@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <46d6db660902031454r1142082cu739a4d6186bc3d2e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > 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).
> >
> 
> fantastic, really! :)
> it saves almost half a day of git-cvsimport on vim7 cvs official repository.
> 
> Dscho rulez... Kudos...

Hey, thanks!

For interested parties, I set up a repository at

	http://repo.or.cz/w/cvsclone.git

Note: this is by no means an official repository, and it contains 
adaptations I needed for a very special case (which cost me 1 week to find 
out what the problem was, and a day to fix, and 2 months later, they 
switched to Subversion ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho