From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps? Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:57:09 +0100 Message-ID: <47AC2775.5090403@viscovery.net> References: <47AC1FDC.9000502@glidos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Gardiner X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 08 10:57:50 2008 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 1JNPzR-0002dy-76 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:57:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932833AbYBHJ5O (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:57:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932756AbYBHJ5N (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:57:13 -0500 Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at ([212.33.55.23]:33597 "EHLO lilzmailso01.liwest.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760786AbYBHJ5M (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:57:12 -0500 Received: from cm56-163-160.liwest.at ([86.56.163.160] helo=linz.eudaptics.com) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtpa (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1JNPyS-0000Rx-AY; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:56:48 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (J6T.linz.viscovery [192.168.1.42]) by linz.eudaptics.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204D9A33B; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:57:09 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <47AC1FDC.9000502@glidos.net> X-Spam-Score: 1.7 (+) X-Spam-Report: ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_99=3.5 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Paul Gardiner schrieb: > 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? I've used fast-export (not git-fast-export) to convert a CVS repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/fast-export.git It worked better than git-cvsimport because the repository was a real mess. -- Hannes