Karl Hasselström wrote: > On 2008-02-08 09:24:44 +0000, Paul Gardiner wrote: > >> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
