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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:57:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47AC2775.5090403@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47AC1FDC.9000502@glidos.net>

Paul Gardiner schrieb:
> 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?

I've used fast-export (not git-fast-export) to convert a CVS repository:

http://repo.or.cz/w/fast-export.git

It worked better than git-cvsimport because the repository was a real mess.

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-08  9:24 Any tricks for speeding up cvsps? Paul Gardiner
2008-02-08  9:48 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-02-08 12:02   ` Michael Haggerty
2008-02-08  9:57 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2008-02-08 10:11   ` Paul Gardiner
2008-02-08 10:33     ` Johannes Sixt
2008-02-09  8:32       ` Paul Gardiner
2008-02-08 12:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 12:24 ` Jakub Narebski

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