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

fredag 21 september 2007 skrev Johannes Schindelin:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> 
> > fredag 21 september 2007 skrev Linus Torvalds:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> 
> Plus you have to install Ruby.  Just wanted people to know.

You don't like Ruby, do you? It worth it, really.

-- robin