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What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs?

Subject: What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs?

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Florian Weimer· Dec 12, 2007, 09:30 UTC · lore

This is probably more of a cvsps question than a GIT question, but AFAICT, the cvsps upstream is mostly inactive these days.

I tried to import the PostgreSQL repository, using

  git-cvsimport  -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot -k -C pgsql pgsql

However, after a bit of activity, git-cvsimport hangs at the following line

  cvs rlog: Logging pgsql/src/win32

strace doesn't show any system call activtiy in the cvsps process (which consumes 100% CPU). cvsps is Debian's 2.1-2 version.

Is there some kind of replacement for cvsps which works more reliably?

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Andreas Ericsson· Dec 12, 2007, 15:54 UTC · re: Florian Weimer · lore

Re: What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs?

Florian Weimer wrote:

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> This is probably more of a cvsps question than a GIT question, but
> AFAICT, the cvsps upstream is mostly inactive these days.
> 
> I tried to import the PostgreSQL repository, using
> 
>   git-cvsimport  -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot -k -C pgsql pgsql
> 
> However, after a bit of activity, git-cvsimport hangs at the following
> line
> 
>   cvs rlog: Logging pgsql/src/win32
> 
> strace doesn't show any system call activtiy in the cvsps process
> (which consumes 100% CPU).  cvsps is Debian's 2.1-2 version.
> 
> Is there some kind of replacement for cvsps which works more reliably?
>

I think "git fast-import" has a CVS frontend. I'm not sure though, so I leave finding out and trying it as an exercise for you ;-)

It requires file access to the CVS repository, afaiu.

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Michael Haggerty· Dec 12, 2007, 15:58 UTC · re: Florian Weimer · lore

Re: What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs?

Florian Weimer wrote:

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> This is probably more of a cvsps question than a GIT question, but
> AFAICT, the cvsps upstream is mostly inactive these days.
> 
> I tried to import the PostgreSQL repository, using
> 
>   git-cvsimport  -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot -k -C pgsql pgsql
> 
> However, after a bit of activity, git-cvsimport hangs at the following
> line [...]
> 
> Is there some kind of replacement for cvsps which works more reliably?

Yes, cvs2svn, which can now also output to git. But note: cvs2svn only supports one-time conversions (not incremental), you need to use the trunk version of cvs2svn, and using it to convert to git is not yet documented very well. See the following thread:

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118592701426175&w=4

Please let us know how it goes!

Michael

Jakub Narebski· Dec 14, 2007, 01:56 UTC · re: Florian Weimer · lore

Re: What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs?

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> writes:

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> This is probably more of a cvsps question than a GIT question, but
> AFAICT, the cvsps upstream is mostly inactive these days.
> 
> I tried to import the PostgreSQL repository, using
> 
>   git-cvsimport  -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot -k -C pgsql pgsql
> 
> However, after a bit of activity, git-cvsimport hangs at the following
> line
> 
>   cvs rlog: Logging pgsql/src/win32
> 
> strace doesn't show any system call activtiy in the cvsps process
> (which consumes 100% CPU).  cvsps is Debian's 2.1-2 version.
> 
> Is there some kind of replacement for cvsps which works more reliably?

You can try set of patches to cvsps there (see GitLinks at Git Wiki,
or git-cvsimport entry at InterfacesFrontendsAndTools)
  http://ydirson.free.fr/en/software/scm/cvsps.html

Or you can try other CVS importers (see InterfacesForntendsAndTools):
 - parsecvs by Keith Packard, used to import X.Org, seems to be
   unmaintaned, requires access to *,v files (but check out cvssuck)
 - fromcvs by Simon 'corecode' Schubert, uses git-fast-import, 
   IIRC in Ruby
 - cvs2svn has _experimental_ support for git export (git-fast-import?)
   so you can try this as well.

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