From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs? Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:54:05 +0100 Message-ID: <4760041D.4030606@op5.se> References: <824peojm4g.fsf@mid.bfk.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Florian Weimer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 12 16:54:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J2Tuq-0005jS-I1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:54:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758665AbXLLPyL (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:54:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758000AbXLLPyK (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:54:10 -0500 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:33314 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758634AbXLLPyI (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:54:08 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5201F08016; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:54:07 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.399 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ad5-Abd7mqf9; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:54:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.20]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DFD1F08008; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:54:05 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) In-Reply-To: <824peojm4g.fsf@mid.bfk.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231