From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: cvsimport bug on branches [was: conversion to git] Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:12:34 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <200709211915.35642.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <200709212242.53131.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Linus Torvalds , Steffen Prohaska , Eric Blake , m4-patches@gnu.org, Jim Meyering , git@vger.kernel.org To: Robin Rosenberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 21 23:13:38 2007 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 1IYpoe-0007lx-CV for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:13:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764764AbXIUVNc (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:13:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764746AbXIUVNc (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:13:32 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:54487 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757631AbXIUVNb (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:13:31 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2007 21:13:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp023) with SMTP; 21 Sep 2007 23:13:29 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19sbGsW7MJsCBvPKYFFRb1BTjm+z066iiWUy9NlCZ wdKQOweZ4gRl2x X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <200709212242.53131.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > fredag 21 september 2007 skrev Johannes Schindelin: > > 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. > > You don't like Ruby, do you? It worth it, really. No, it's yet another dependency. And the quality of the code still depends on the programmer, not the language. Ciao, Dscho