From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps? Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:02:35 +0100 Message-ID: <47AC44DB.1000002@alum.mit.edu> References: <47AC1FDC.9000502@glidos.net> <20080208094812.GA9666@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Paul Gardiner , git@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karl_Hasselstr=F6m?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 08 13:03:57 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 1JNRxO-0001Lq-56 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:03:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751637AbYBHMC7 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:02:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751654AbYBHMC7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:02:59 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:53329 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751521AbYBHMC6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:02:58 -0500 X-Envelope-From: mhagger@alum.mit.edu Received: from [192.168.100.152] (ssh.berlin.jpk.com [212.222.128.142]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id m18C2kR6017861 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:02:46 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8pre) Gecko/20071022 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <20080208094812.GA9666@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Karl Hasselstr=F6m wrote: > On 2008-02-08 09:24:44 +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote: >=20 >> 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? >=20 > This topic comes up on the list every once in a while; try searching > the list archives. >=20 > I seem to recall that for heavy imports, the Subversion CVS importer > is popular. I don't know if it can give you a git repository directly= , > or if you'll have to go via svn. The trunk version of cvs2svn [1] can convert directly from CVS to git, including branches and tags. Recently I wrote up better documentation [2] for using cvs2svn to convert to git. Please direct suggestions, bug reports, or offers of help to the cvs2sv= n mailing lists [3] or irc channel [4]. Michael Haggerty [1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org [2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html [3] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList [4] irc.freenode.net, channel #cvs2svn