From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: cvs2git migration - cloning CVS repository Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:18:48 +0100 Message-ID: <49885248.6020805@alum.mit.edu> References: <286817520902020624y7f4c2942l34fafc0fe0fa0b48@mail.gmail.com> <49883C52.3060102@alum.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rostislav Svoboda , git@vger.kernel.org, cvs2svn users To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 03 15:20:38 2009 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 1LUM8W-0003Wa-Ec for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:20:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752417AbZBCOS5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:18:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752256AbZBCOS5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:18:57 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:52995 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752166AbZBCOS5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:18:57 -0500 X-Envelope-From: mhagger@alum.mit.edu Received: from [192.168.100.152] (ssh.berlin.jpk.com [212.222.128.135]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id n13EIoKI008513 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:18:51 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090105 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: 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: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Michael Haggerty wrote: >> If you do not have filesystem access to your CVS repository, you might >> be able to clone it using CVSSuck [2,3]. > > A substantially faster option would be to go with cvsclone: > > http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/rtc/cvsclone.l > > (in my case, cvsclone was not only faster, but it actually worked, too, > which is more than I could say of CVSSuck). > > Note: it only works for anonymous access so far. > > Note also: for my use case, it was necessary to edit the rlog, as those > brilliant geniuses included verbatim cvs logs for files they moved. *sigh* > If you need something like that, I can give you my patched version. Thanks for the pointer. I just added it to the cvs2svn/cvs2git FAQ [1]. Michael [1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html