Converting large CVS repositories

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Ulrich Spoerlein:
>> I also tried Simon Schuberts fromcvs but it has severe problems with
>> lots of branches and is blowing the manifest to 10GB and more.
> 
> Simon has already answered this one and that's why it is unusable for
> FreeBSD's src repo.  The final converted repo is more than 20 GB worth with
> a very huge manifest.

I am aware of this and I am very sorry :)

Detailed investigation why this is happening lead me to such diamonds like <http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/unsorted/broken-vendor,v>.  How is any converter supposed to do the right thing with such RCS history?  This is really a field of guesswork and horror.

I can add more heuristics and erratic rules to make the freebsd repo convert more nicely, but it is not an easy task.

cheers
  simon