Re: Offering help with repository conversion

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, 19 February, 2014 10:43:49 Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I maintain a tool called reposurgeon that edits and convers
> version-control repositories, and a front end for it called
> cvs-fast-export that does what its name says.
> 
> Recently a gnuplot contributor attempting to set up a local git mirror of
> the gnuplot repository for his own use approached me with a bug report
> about cvs-fast-export which I was able to resolve. In the process I
> ran a test conversion of the gnuplot history to git.
> 
> I am therefore in a position to state that converting your production
> repository out of CVS into a modern distributed VCS would not be
> very difficult. If I had an inside collaborator familiar with the
> project history I think it would be about a week's work.  Most of that 
> effort would be lifting CVS version references in comments into
> a useful form.

You are kind to offer.
Can you summarize in what ways your conversion would be different
from the automated cvs->git conversion service offered by SourceForge
(which so far the project has declined to use)?

	Ethan