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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Paul Gardiner <osronline@glidos.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:33:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47AC2FF6.1030103@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47AC2AC3.6020704@glidos.net>

Paul Gardiner schrieb:
> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That looks to require going either via svn or mercurial. Is that right?
> And if so, which did you find best?

You are right. Because I'm utterly confused. I actually used fromcvs/togit:

http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg/fromcvs

Please bear with me; I did this about a year ago. Sorry for the noise.

Be warned that fromcvs/togit does not convert tags.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-08  9:24 Any tricks for speeding up cvsps? Paul Gardiner
2008-02-08  9:48 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-02-08 12:02   ` Michael Haggerty
2008-02-08  9:57 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-02-08 10:11   ` Paul Gardiner
2008-02-08 10:33     ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2008-02-09  8:32       ` Paul Gardiner
2008-02-08 12:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 12:24 ` Jakub Narebski

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