On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:06:36PM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote:
> 
> Second issue with git, is that with lots of tiny little files things
> don't work so well.  I tried converting our portage tree into a git
> tree, and it ran for around 2 days until I finally killed it.  If we
> didn't want to preserve history, then maybe it would work out.  But
> with the problem I outlined above I still don't see it as a contender.
> There are lots of times when one would want to do a commit in one
> directory.
> 

Ryan,

What tool did you use for that? AFAIK parsecvs[1] has converted some
very big and broken CVS repositories successfully.

- ferdy

[1] git://git.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs

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