Re: cvsimport bug on branches [was: conversion to git]

[Robin Rosenberg]

fredag 21 september 2007 skrev Linus Torvalds:
> 
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> > 
> > Hard to say. The best is to avoid git-cvsimport if you need
> > to import branches correctly.
> 
> Yes. git-cvsimport started out as a pretty quick hack, and depends on 
> cvsps which is another fairly hacky thing.
> 
> The big advantage of git-cvsimport is that it can do incremental imports, 
> which I don't think the other methods do. But if there is any choice at 
> all, and especially if you're not that interested in the incremental 
> feature (ie you can cut over to git, and perhaps use git-cvsserver to 
> "supprt" CVS users) the other CVS importers are likely to be much better.

fromcvs does incremental import and it's very fast and uses much less memory 
than cvsimport. It needs the rcs files however and will not convert 
non-branch tags.

-- robin