From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs?
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:54:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4760041D.4030606@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <824peojm4g.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
Florian Weimer wrote:
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 9:30 What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs? Florian Weimer
2007-12-12 15:54 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2007-12-12 15:58 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-12-14 1:56 ` Jakub Narebski
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