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Date:      Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:49:55 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Subversion/CVS experiment summary
Message-ID:  <xzpr7x4xf3g.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040209175314.GU2803@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> (Stijn Hoop's message of "Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:53:14 %2B0100")
References:  <200402091130.05656.craig@tobuj.gank.org> <20040209175314.GU2803@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>

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Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> writes:
> I also tried refinecvs (formerly cvs2svn.pl), found at
>
> http://lev.serebryakov.spb.ru/refinecvs/
>
> but although it looks like it handles things much better (even vendor
> branches etc), it loads EVERYTHING into memory -- which means that it
> eventually grew to 1G of memory/swap at which point my memory was exhaust=
ed,
> and this was at pass 2 of 7...

Unfortunately there's no good way to avoid this.  CVS discards a lot
of information about each commit, and in order to reconstruct that
information you have to view the repo as a whole.

That's not really a problem though, since this is a one-time
operation.  If / when we decide to switch to SVN, we can easily find a
machine with enough RAM to do the job.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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