Try creating a dumpfile only and see if that helps. I am (literally!)
converting a 700MB repository with 15000+ revisions and its taken about
2 hours (so far, 90% done) on RH7.3 P4@3GHZ. Once the dumpfile is done
then import into svn.
Chris
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 11:39, Martin Gadbois wrote:
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> Hi there,
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> I am trying to convert our CVS to Subversion, but cvs2svn takes a very long time to execute, and
> things seems to slow down with time. Pass 4 takes the longest.
>
> At one point I 'imported' 1 year of commits before stopping.
>
> I simply did not have the patience to complete it, mostly due to the slowdown.
>
> Our CVS tree is big:
> - - earliest commit is ~2000
> - - cvsroot is 1.4G, ~17700 files
> - - One tag is used per build, we are now at build 2700.
> - - A dozen or so of branches.
> - - I had to modify cvs2svn slightly to accept branches with two different names
>
> Is it common to take that much time? (Should I just go on a week vacation while it converts?)
>
> Any hints on what takes that much time? (I profiled the script and most of the time was to execute
> 'co' and in enroot_names())
>
> What can I do to make things smoother?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> - --
> "Windows might take you from 0 to 60 faster, but to go to 100 you need Unix."
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> Martin Gadbois
> S/W Developper
> Colubris Networks Inc.
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