Re: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)

2013-04-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Apologies for the somewhat belated reply. I've been even busier than usual lately and am about to be traveling for a week. Ilya Basin basini...@gmail.com: Hi Eric. ESR cvs-fast-export does not have incremental-import support. ESR Whether git-cvs-import has it depend on which version you

Re: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)

2013-04-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Ilya Basin basini...@gmail.com: For new branches the 'from' command can refer the common ancestor in an existing branch. For example: /--E thebranch / A---B---C---D master Commit E is newer than D; we already imported D; thebranch is new. Instead of:

Re: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)

2013-04-18 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Ilya Basin basini...@gmail.com: Hi Eric. I tried --fast-export. It's 2 times faster. The first thing that differs: in cvsps2 commits with adjacent timestamps were joined into one (see the attached files). Do you know the reason? The cvsps guy included code to do that. Keith Packard didn't.

Re: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)

2013-04-15 Thread Ilya Basin
Hi Eric. I tried --fast-export. It's 2 times faster. The first thing that differs: in cvsps2 commits with adjacent timestamps were joined into one (see the attached files). Do you know the reason? Does this --fast-export thing support what John mentioned, the incremental import support? Does

Re: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)

2013-04-15 Thread Jakub Narębski
Ilya Basin wrote: Does this --fast-export thing support what John mentioned, the incremental import support? Does 'git fast-import' has it? I need it, because full import takes too long. The central repo of my employer is CVS, other people commit to it and I use git internally to be able to

Re: State of CVS-to-git conversion tools (Was: Re: cvsps: bad usage: invalid argument --norc)

2013-04-14 Thread Michael Haggerty
On 04/14/2013 01:33 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: [...] I wish I could point you at a convertor I really trust. I can't. There is a third tool, cvs2git (based on the analyzer from cvs2svn) that I don't maintain, which has problems of its own.