Re: Advice/help wanted on bzr fast-export-from-cvs

Robert Collins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.cvs2svn.devel
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On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 00:45 +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> 
> Even faster than those two options, by a significant factor, is a
> --use-internal-co option that I have prototyped on my hard disk but
> not
> yet released to the wild.  The analogous option is the default for
> cvs2svn and would probably be the best default for the other
> converters,
> if it can get released in time.

I'd be inclined to start up a CVS server and talk directly to it to
extract content. That should be pretty darn fast and avoid all the
startup-teardown overhead involved in invoking cvs repeatedly. cscvs has
generic python bindings for the CVS protocol in its CVS module.

-Rob

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