Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?

[Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>]

Karl Hasselström wrote:
> On 2008-02-08 09:24:44 +0000, 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?
> 
> This topic comes up on the list every once in a while; try searching
> the list archives.
> 
> I seem to recall that for heavy imports, the Subversion CVS importer
> is popular. I don't know if it can give you a git repository directly,
> or if you'll have to go via svn.

The trunk version of cvs2svn [1] can convert directly from CVS to git,
including branches and tags.  Recently I wrote up better documentation
[2] for using cvs2svn to convert to git.

Please direct suggestions, bug reports, or offers of help to the cvs2svn
mailing lists [3] or irc channel [4].

Michael Haggerty

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org
[2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html
[3] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList
[4] irc.freenode.net, channel #cvs2svn