Re: What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs?

Florian Weimer wrote:

This is probably more of a cvsps question than a GIT question, but
AFAICT, the cvsps upstream is mostly inactive these days.

I tried to import the PostgreSQL repository, using

  git-cvsimport  -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot -k -C pgsql pgsql

However, after a bit of activity, git-cvsimport hangs at the following
line

  cvs rlog: Logging pgsql/src/win32

strace doesn't show any system call activtiy in the cvsps process
(which consumes 100% CPU).  cvsps is Debian's 2.1-2 version.

Is there some kind of replacement for cvsps which works more reliably?

I think "git fast-import" has a CVS frontend. I'm not sure though,
so I leave finding out and trying it as an exercise for you ;-)

It requires file access to the CVS repository, afaiu.

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