Re: Diff format in packs

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Hi Jon,

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:

> On 7/31/06, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > would be to use cvs2svn to build the changeset database and then use
> > > cvsps to simply read the changesets out of it and build the git
> > > repository.
> > 
> > Once cvs2svn has the db built, it should be easy to write a
> > perl/python script that mimics the output of cvsps.
> 
> This is an efficiency problem.

In another mail, you asked for a solution for the initial 700MB download. 
How about doing it like Linux-2.6, namely have a clean cut, and for those 
who want, they can load the historical repo, too, and graft it onto the 
current one?

I _think_ that with a new start, incremental git-cvsimport should still 
work, if you do it cleverly. Obviously, it would _not_ have the full 
history, but rather add onto the most recent revisions (incremental 
git-cvsimport detects the revisions to import by author date IIRC).

Note that this method will _not_ work, if there are _new_ branches that 
cvsps has problems with.

Ciao,
Dscho
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