From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs?
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:58:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47600521.7080604@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <824peojm4g.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
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 [...]
>
> Is there some kind of replacement for cvsps which works more reliably?
Yes, cvs2svn, which can now also output to git. But note: cvs2svn only
supports one-time conversions (not incremental), you need to use the
trunk version of cvs2svn, and using it to convert to git is not yet
documented very well. See the following thread:
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118592701426175&w=4
Please let us know how it goes!
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-12 9:30 What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs? Florian Weimer
2007-12-12 15:54 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-12 15:58 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2007-12-14 1:56 ` Jakub Narebski
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