From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:23:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802081222400.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <47AC1FDC.9000502@glidos.net>

Hi,

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote:

> I'm trying to convert a huge cvs repository. I've left cvsps running for 
> days. First attempt, stderr filled my disc with warnings about tags that 
> couldn't be associated with any one commit, without producing anything 
> from stdout. I'm now redirecting stderr to /dev/null, but it still just 
> sits there producing nothing.  Is git-cvsimport infeasible for large 
> repositories, or are there tricks I might use?

The obvious thing is to have the CVS repository locally.  And then on a 
ramdisk.

Hth,
Dscho