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Re: Problem with git-cvsimport
user name
2007-10-31 07:40:29
Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> I use fromcvs which is *very* fast, and quite memory
conservative compared
> to the others and seems reliable so far (six months).
It probably breaks
> on exotic variants of branches though, but I don't have
those / don't care
> about them.

I actually use fromcvs for a few repositories, and actually
started using it
on repositories where cvsps (and git-cvsimport) fail.

> Drawbacks, more dependencies and access to the rcs
files is required and
> tags are not converted.

Most projects have "rsyncs" or
"tarballs" of their CVS repository available,
making fromcvs possible on most of them.  And CVS tags, well
they are about
as good as CVS $Keywords$.

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