From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps? Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:23:27 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <47AC1FDC.9000502@glidos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Gardiner X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 08 13:24:28 2008 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 1JNSHB-0007dl-CZ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:24:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763251AbYBHMXW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:23:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763247AbYBHMXW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:23:22 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36123 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1763251AbYBHMXV (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:23:21 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Feb 2008 12:23:18 -0000 Received: from host86-138-198-40.range86-138.btcentralplus.com (EHLO racer.home) [86.138.198.40] by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 08 Feb 2008 13:23:18 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/TJ1w5je3T18DFdeQrGLsmZkEu8ZxNufrdFzQXHC WuL1rQyeEFLAwm X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <47AC1FDC.9000502@glidos.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Paul Gardiner wrote: > I'm trying to convert a huge cvs repository. I've left cvsps running for > days. First attempt, stderr filled my disc with warnings about tags that > couldn't be associated with any one commit, without producing anything > from stdout. I'm now redirecting stderr to /dev/null, but it still just > sits there producing nothing. Is git-cvsimport infeasible for large > repositories, or are there tricks I might use? The obvious thing is to have the CVS repository locally. And then on a ramdisk. Hth, Dscho