Re: Fixes to parsecvs

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Wed, 2006-04-05 23:36:32 -0700, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
> note, parsecvs remains available from:
> 
> 	git://git.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs

It now compiles out-of-the-box for me, nice work.

However, it would be nice if you'd add a short description about how
to use it. Something like this:
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There's still a lot of work to do on parsecvs, but if you want to give
it a run, first create a copy of the whole CVS tree and go to the base
directory of this copy. (You find a lot of *,v files in this directory
and all its subdirectories.)
Now feed all ,v filenames into parsecvs. Keep in mind that a
`edit-change-log' executable needs to be in your $PATH (a one-line
script only exit'ing with 0 will do the job.):

	find . -type f -name '*,v' -print | parsecvs

This will create the .git/ directory and put all the objects, commits
and tree information into this new git repository.
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I just ran it against a locally rsync'ed copy of the Binutils ,v
files. Looging at the progress bar, it is bascally ready:


Load:               winsup/configure.in,v ....................* 27704 of 27704


But it seems it now starts to really consume memory:

jbglaw@bixie:~/bin$ ps axflwww|egrep '(VSZ|parsecvs)'|grep -v grep
F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
0  1000 15564 22879  18   0 2805084 549996 finish T  pts/10    30:51 |       \_ parsecvs

How well does this work with even larger repositories?

MfG, JBG

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