On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:52:50 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl/dist-hg and > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl/dist-git for > info. You're using the cvsps-based git-cvsimport, (which isn't surprising since that's what is in upstream git). You might want to investigate using something that has been developed since such as Keith Packard's parsecvs tool which he came up with for the X.org conversion from cvs->git. His experience with the X.org repositories was that there was no way for cvsps to get the right answer. His parsecvs tool also has the advantage of working straight from the ,v files without the awkward need fro both a repository and a checkout. He announced and described the new tool here: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0603/17950.html though the URL for cloning in that message is now stale and the correct URL is now: git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/repos/parsecvs I _think_ parsecvs is expected to be faster during the conversion, though it can use enormous amounts of memory, (which caused it to fail when attempting a conversion of the mozilla CVS repository if I remember correctly), though supposedly that is fixable. But with the one-repository-per-package (and even per-branch(!)) approach here, I don't think the memory concerns of parsecvs would be an issue. Anyway, if this tool ends up being useful, I imagine it would be trivial to make it create hg repositories as well, (it's the cvs parsing that is hard---everything after that is really easy). I'd actually be interested in attempting some conversions myself. If I were to do that, what's the easiest way to get my hands on the CVS repository? (And yes, I understand that this might be "hard" now and is one of the things that would obviously be quite easy after the move to a new system.) -Carl
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