From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Gardiner Subject: Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps? Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:32:19 +0000 Message-ID: <47AD6513.2040609@glidos.net> References: <47AC1FDC.9000502@glidos.net> <47AC2775.5090403@viscovery.net> <47AC2AC3.6020704@glidos.net> <47AC2FF6.1030103@viscovery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 09 09:33:05 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 1JNl8v-0008Sp-NS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:33:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751189AbYBIIc1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 03:32:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751327AbYBIIc1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 03:32:27 -0500 Received: from mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.37]:43573 "EHLO mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751040AbYBIIc0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 03:32:26 -0500 X-Trace: 37189055/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/PIPEX/$MX-ACCEPTED/pipex-infrastructure/62.241.163.7 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 62.241.163.7 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: osronline@glidos.net X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAEf0rEc+8aMH/2dsb2JhbACodw X-IP-Direction: IN Received: from blaster.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.163.7]) by smtp.pipex.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 09 Feb 2008 08:32:23 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.24] (80-42-19-184.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com [80.42.19.184]) by blaster.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A91E0E000084 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 08:32:21 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <47AC2FF6.1030103@viscovery.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Sixt wrote: > 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. That's amazing. Less than an hour to for the initial conversion, and just minutes to progressively sync up. Thanks to everyone for all the usefull feedback I've received here. Cheers, Paul.