From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: Another way to compare tools: is it possible to transfer full history? Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:48:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4CA20E51.1000503@alum.mit.edu> References: <4CA20169.2040606@dbservice.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tuomo , git@vger.kernel.org To: Tomas Carnecky X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 28 17:49:08 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0cQV-0002N5-Iz for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:49:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753973Ab0I1PtC (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:49:02 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:50622 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752955Ab0I1PtB (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:49:01 -0400 X-Envelope-From: mhagger@alum.mit.edu Received: from [192.168.100.112] (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 o8SFmXXL027026 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:48:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: <4CA20169.2040606@dbservice.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 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: On 09/28/2010 04:53 PM, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > (shameless plug: just this weekend I started collecting the various fast > import/export tools and made a webpage about it: > http://caurea.org/fast-export-import/. It's far from complete though. > And if you know any tools that perform better than those I've listed, > I'd be glade to update the page). cvs2svn [1] (in particular the cvs2git [2] and cvs2bzr [3] variants, which are part of the same project) can convert from CVS to fast-import format. It is mature and actively maintained [4], has a lot of features [5], help is available, and hopefully you agree that the documentation [6,7] is well-written. Michael [1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ [2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html [3] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2bzr.html [4] https://www.ohloh.net/p/cvs2svn [5] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/features.html [6] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2svn.html [7] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html