Re: cvs2git migration - cloning CVS repository

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Michael Haggerty wrote:

quoted

If you do not have filesystem access to your CVS repository, you might 
be able to clone it using CVSSuck [2,3].

A substantially faster option would be to go with cvsclone:

	http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/rtc/cvsclone.l

(in my case, cvsclone was not only faster, but it actually worked, too, 
which is more than I could say of CVSSuck).

Note: it only works for anonymous access so far.

Note also: for my use case, it was necessary to edit the rlog, as those 
brilliant geniuses included verbatim cvs logs for files they moved. *sigh*
If you need something like that, I can give you my patched version.

Thanks for the pointer.  I just added it to the cvs2svn/cvs2git FAQ [1].

Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html