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Re: [edgebsd-developers] [esr@xxxxxxxxxxx: cvs-fast-export can now convert the NetBSD repo]
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- Subject: Re: [edgebsd-developers] [esr@xxxxxxxxxxx: cvs-fast-export can now convert the NetBSD repo]
- From: Pierre Pronchery <khorben@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:19:46 +0100
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Hey Jeff, developers, On 23/10/2014 23:27, Jeff Rizzo wrote: > 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. Any success, anything worth noting? I'd like to give it a try too. The ability to substitute CVS Ids with Git commit IDs sounds really cool. Cheers! -- khorben > 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. -- khorben -- khorben
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