From: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
To: dev@rapidsvn.tigris.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with git-cvsimport
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:40:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fg9t3t$kc3$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200710302244.50034.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com
Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> I use fromcvs which is *very* fast, and quite memory conservative compared
> to the others and seems reliable so far (six months). It probably breaks
> on exotic variants of branches though, but I don't have those / don't care
> about them.
I actually use fromcvs for a few repositories, and actually started using it
on repositories where cvsps (and git-cvsimport) fail.
> Drawbacks, more dependencies and access to the rcs files is required and
> tags are not converted.
Most projects have "rsyncs" or "tarballs" of their CVS repository available,
making fromcvs possible on most of them. And CVS tags, well they are about
as good as CVS $Keywords$.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-09 9:25 Problem with git-cvsimport Thomas Pasch
2007-10-09 12:47 ` Jan Wielemaker
2007-10-09 13:21 ` Gerald (Jerry) Carter
2007-10-09 19:41 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2007-10-10 2:34 ` Michael Haggerty
2007-10-10 13:05 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2007-10-30 20:06 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-10-30 21:15 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-10-30 21:44 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-10-31 12:40 ` Aidan Van Dyk [this message]
2007-10-31 4:42 ` Michael Haggerty
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2006-10-02 9:15 problem " picca
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