From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aidan Van Dyk Subject: Re: Problem with git-cvsimport Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:40:29 -0400 Organization: Highrise Community Network Message-ID: References: <470B491F.9020306@jentro.com> <170fa0d20710301306o6b3798f9k72615eb811d871f2@mail.gmail.com> <200710302244.50034.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Reply-To: dev@rapidsvn.tigris.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: dev@rapidsvn.tigris.org X-From: dev-return-1233-gcvsrd-dev=m.gmane.org@rapidsvn.tigris.org Wed Oct 31 14:15:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvsrd-dev@gmane.org Received: from sc157.sjc.collab.net ([204.16.104.146] helo=tigris.org) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InDPi-0005o8-3e for gcvsrd-dev@gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:15:18 +0100 Received: (qmail 19886 invoked by uid 5000); 31 Oct 2007 13:15:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@rapidsvn.tigris.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@rapidsvn.tigris.org Received: (qmail 19876 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2007 13:15:06 -0000 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAADscKEdQW+UCh2dsb2JhbACOZAIBCAop X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,351,1188802800"; d="scan'208";a="72020699" X-IRONPORT: SCANNED X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Followup-To: gmane.comp.version-control.git X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: trb229.travel-net.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Sender: news Archived-At: 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 $Keywords$.