Re: cvs2git migration - cloning CVS repository

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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Michael Haggerty wrote:
>> 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

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