Subject: Re: What to do if git-cvsimport/cvsps hangs?

From: Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:58:25 +0100

Florian Weimer wrote:
> This is probably more of a cvsps question than a GIT question, but
> AFAICT, the cvsps upstream is mostly inactive these days.
> 
> I tried to import the PostgreSQL repository, using
> 
>   git-cvsimport  -d :pserver:[email-masked]:/projects/cvsroot -k -C pgsql pgsql
> 
> However, after a bit of activity, git-cvsimport hangs at the following
> line [...]
> 
> Is there some kind of replacement for cvsps which works more reliably?

Yes, cvs2svn, which can now also output to git.  But note: cvs2svn only
supports one-time conversions (not incremental), you need to use the
trunk version of cvs2svn, and using it to convert to git is not yet
documented very well.  See the following thread:

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118592701426175&w=4

Please let us know how it goes!

Michael