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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: cvsimport bug on branches [was: conversion to git]
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:22:04 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> fredag 21 september 2007 skrev Linus Torvalds:
> > 
> > The big advantage of git-cvsimport is that it can do incremental 
> > imports, which I don't think the other methods do. But if there is any 
> > choice at all, and especially if you're not that interested in the 
> > incremental feature (ie you can cut over to git, and perhaps use 
> > git-cvsserver to "supprt" CVS users) the other CVS importers are 
> > likely to be much better.
> 
> fromcvs does incremental import and it's very fast and uses much less 
> memory than cvsimport. It needs the rcs files however and will not 
> convert non-branch tags.

Plus you have to install Ruby.  Just wanted people to know.

Ciao,
Dscho