Re: [RFC] git-cvs script

[Nick Woolley <nickwoolley@yahoo.co.uk>]

Alex Bennee wrote:
> If this is using the inbuilt cvsps and perl then it will likely choke
> on very large CVS repos. For some CVS tree's I've had to resort to a
> hacked up version of parsecvs to get a conversion running.

I gather cvsps has to read the whole history to be able to interpret the latest
commits, is that right?  In which case a long history is going to generate long
waits on each import. And possibly eat lots of memory too.

I do actually have a larger CVS tree to test it on than I have been using (it's
about a decade's worth of changes on a production website) but I didn't want to
set myself up for a fall by tackling it.  For now, my aim has been to keep CVS
"out of the living room" whilst I work on the small CVS module that concerns me.
Meanwhile, I'm hoping to convince the powers that be that CVS needs to be
replaced, preferably with Git, before I get asked to work on something larger.

However, if you can test it on your repository, and with your patched version of
parsecvs, that would be a good thing. Especially if it works.

Thanks,

N