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Re: [edgebsd-developers] [esr@xxxxxxxxxxx: cvs-fast-export can now convert the NetBSD repo]



I'm currently a couple hours in on a conversion using this. We'll see how it goes. I'm not confident it'll be much better than the joerg conversion.

+j

On 10/23/14 2:25 PM, Kooda wrote:
This might help us a lot!

----- Forwarded message from "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> -----

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:12:20 -0400
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Kooda <kooda@xxxxxxxxx>, Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Alan Barrett <apb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: cvs-fast-export can now convert the NetBSD repo
Delivered-To: kooda@xxxxxxxxx
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

I bring to your attention the following series of blog posts:

Spending the âHelp Stamp Out CVS In Your Lifetimeâ fund
       http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6389

Black magic and the Great Beast
       http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6406

Building the perfect beast
       http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6454

Proving the Great Beast concept
       http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6466

The short version is: a high-quality conversion of the biggest NetBSD
repo is now technically possible. A combination of successful software
optimizations in cvs-fast-export and throwing hardware at the problem
has borne fruit.

Now we need to do the politics.  Is NetBSD ready for an official cutover?
If so, how are we going to schedule this?

There's no time pressure on my end; the Great Beast probably won't go live
for another month.  In the meantime I have temporary ssh access to a
machine almost as powerful for test runs.