Re: Antwort: Re: cvs2svn.py fails converting repository with the attached file

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:14:16AM -0500, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> which I'm pretty sure does not support the extended RCS file
> definition. Maybe it should, but then we'd probably also have to get
> an improved version of RCS 'co', or find some other means to obtain
> specific revisions from a ,v file...
>

I had to do some rcs file mangling recently, with thousands of revisions
of very large files. Using co directly was unacceptable because of the
O(N^2) nature.

Instead, I used a slightly modified rcsparse to extract not only the change
metadata, but the deltas themselves, and the fulltext of the HEAD.

I took HEAD and picked up the deltas in reverse order, reconstructing
all of the fulltexts in N passes (there were no branches in these
rcs files).

This gave me a tremendous speedup, but wouldn't it also allow us to
remove the requirement for "co"?

--ben

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Received on Fri Jun 27 18:41:48 2003