Dear Martin, On 5/24/06, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/24/06, Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Git, > > Dear Geoff, > > if you look at the list archive for the last couple of days, you'll > see there's been quite a bit of activity in tuning cvsimport so that > it scales better with large imports like yours. We have been playing > with a gentoo cvs repo with 300K commits / 1.6GB uncompressed. > > Don't split up the tree... that'll lead to something rather ackward. > Instead, fetch and build git from Junio's 'master' branch which seems > to have collected most (all?) of the patches posted, including one > from Linus that will repack the repo every 1K commits -- keeping the > import size down. I got the latest git and yes, the size is kept down. I've only tried with a smaller repository but it looks promising. When I ran git-cvsimport without a CVS-module name (wanting the entire repository), it gave me a Usage message indicating that the CVS-module name was optional - but it isn't :) I did have to change 2 lines in git-cvsimport to get it to run with my 5.8.0 perl (problems with POSIX errno). I've attached a patch but my work around isn't as quick as what it replaced. Many thanks, I'll have a go with the big repository at work tomorrow! Cheers, Geoff Russell P.S. I've just started to look with git. We have wanted a cvs replacement for a while but have been too scared to change (until now). > > You _will_ need a lot of memory though, as cvsps grows large (working > on a workaround now) and cvsimport grows a bit over time (where is > that last leak?!). And a fast machine -- specially fast IO. I've just > switched from an old test machine to an AMD64 with fast disks, and > it's importing around 10K commits per hour. I > > You will probably want to run cvsps by hand, and later use the -P flag. > > cheers, > > > martin > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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