Converting large CVS repositories

[solo turn]

did you ever try to first convert to svn via cvs2svn and then to mercurial?

On 8/5/07, Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 05.08.2007 at 00:38:33 +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> >  Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> > > I also tried Simon Schuberts fromcvs but it has severe problems with
> > > lots of branches and is blowing the manifest to 10GB and more.
> >
> >  Yea, I'm sorry, fromcvs is mistakingly creating branches it should
> >  drop.  I believe this is because of repo copies, but I am not sure.
> >  I would very much appreciate if we could track this down.
>
> I tried hacking it, so it would only *commit* to the HEAD branch (or to
> a set of branches passed via command line), but that blew up later on.
>
> Where would I start, if I wanted to restrict the RCS parsing to HEAD
> only? And is this even feasible? I think the vendor branches would make
> things tricky, right?
>
> We could also try creating a small, sample CVS repo that has repo-copies
> with different branches and see, if fromcvs creates wrong branches, too.
>
> Cheers,
> Ulrich Spoerlein
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