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Re: git: uh-oh

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

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From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Khee Chin <kheechin@gmail.com>, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-18T16:58:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:26 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of mié ago 18 11:52:58 -0400 2010:
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 17:33, Khee Chin <kheechin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I previously proposed off-list an alternate solution to generate the git
> > > repository which was turned down due to it not being able to handle
> > > incremental updates. However, since we are now looking at a one-time
> > > conversion, this method might come in handy.
> > 
> > cvs2git *is* the tool we've been using now that it's a one-off
> > conversion. It's the one that's causing the current problems.

We had a lot of luck with cvs to svn conversion in the past. And
supposedly the git-svn stuff is top notch. It may be worth a shot.

JD

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