Re: Any tricks for speeding up cvsps?

Karl Hasselström wrote:

On 2008-02-08 09:24:44 +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote:

quoted

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?

This topic comes up on the list every once in a while; try searching
the list archives.

I seem to recall that for heavy imports, the Subversion CVS importer
is popular. I don't know if it can give you a git repository directly,
or if you'll have to go via svn.

The trunk version of cvs2svn [1] can convert directly from CVS to git,
including branches and tags.  Recently I wrote up better documentation
[2] for using cvs2svn to convert to git.

Please direct suggestions, bug reports, or offers of help to the cvs2svn
mailing lists [3] or irc channel [4].

Michael Haggerty

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org
[2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html
[3] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList
[4] irc.freenode.net, channel #cvs2svn