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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:31, Robert Watson wrote:
> A first test for any open
> source replacement for CVS in the FreeBSD project is that it be able
> to import our current history and workload efficiently. I believe
> last time this was attempted with Subversion, the importer ran at
> least a month before the person trying it gave up :-).

For what its worth, the latest cvs2svn converter is at least two orders 
of magnitude faster than when this test was run. I have a private CVS 
test repository which used to take several days to convert on a fairly 
slow machine. With the latest convertion script it only takes a few 
hours.