Re: So what needs to be done?

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

Adam Hamsik wrote:
> Hi,
> On Apr,Thursday 30 2009, at 11:26 PM, Roy Marples wrote:
> 
>> Adam Hamsik wrote:
>>> I was able to import whole CVS history to git with 'corecode' fromcvs
>>> tool. I have src, xsrc, pkgsrc
>>> and othersrc gitrepos with whole history(with all branches, but there
>>> are no tags e.g. there os
>>> netbsd-5 branch butnot netbsd-5-rc4 tag)
>>
>> Was that an import decision or a technical limitation?
> 
> It is technical limitation of tool used for conversion. But there is no
> other tool which was able to convert
> src and pkgsrc repos to git and supports incremental updates.

If incremental updates were not needed (ie one shot conversion) then
could we get the tags?

>>> Git repo sizes for src and pkgsrc are:
>>>
>>> module, CVS size, Git size
>>> src    6.9Gb      1,1Gb
>>> pkgsrc  2Gb      848Gb
>>
>> Is that 848Gb a typo? It can't be that big - I'm not sure I can buy a
>> disk that big!
> 
> Ah sorry yes it is 848Mb big :).

Ah, much better :)

Thanks

Roy