Re: [PATCH] cvsimport: rewritten in Perl

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> I just got my machine blocked from a CVS server which didn't like
> to get hammered with connections.
> 
> That was cvs2git's shell script. Which, by the way, is slow as hell.
> 
> Appended: a git-cvsimport script, written in Perl, which directly talks
> to the CVS server. If the repository is local, it runs a "cvs server"
> child. It produces the same git repository as Linus' version. It can do
> incremental imports. And it's 20 times faster (on my system, with a
> local CVS repository).

Tried it on the bkcvs repository from 
ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.5/
(it can be retrieved with rsync as well)

Your script died after about 30 seconds with:

[...]
New scripts/lxdialog/Makefile: 0 bytes.
New scripts/lxdialog/checklist.c: 0 bytes.
New scripts/lxdialog/colors.h: 0 bytes.
New scripts/lxdialog/dialog.h: 0 bytes.
New scripts/lxdialog/inputbox.c: 0 bytes.
New scripts/lxdialog/lxdialog.c: 0 bytes.
New scripts/lxdialog/menubox.c: 0 bytes.
New scripts/lxdialog/msgbox.c: 0 bytes.
New scripts/lxdialog/textbox.c: 0 bytes.
New scripts/lxdialog/util.c: 0 bytes.
New scripts/lxdialog/yesno.c: 0 bytes.
Can't exec "git-update-cache": Argument list too long at /home/nico/bin/git-cvsimport-script line 402, <CVS> line 8254.
Cannot add files: -1

The original Linus version, although painfully slow, successfully 
converts the whole thing after a couple hours.

Also aren't those "0 bytes" a bit suspicious?


Nicolas