Converting CVS repository with huge binary files

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Mittwoch, 10. Juni 2009 17:38:05 schrieb Greg Ward:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Stephen Rasku<srasku at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just tried to convert a CVS module to Mercurial.  It has huge binary
> > files and it failed after 6 hours after converting only 10 of over 60
> > changesets.  I was using the --datesort option.  Would it help to omit
> > it?  Is there anything else I can do?  It looks like the CVS server
> > has 4G of RAM.

You can try using cvs2svn to first get the cvs into a nicer shape where 
commits aren't tied to files. From there Mercurial can convert much easier. 

Best wishes, 
Arne

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