"Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@gentoo.org> said:
> 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

I was using cvs2git.

I sorta like git in certain aspects. If git would  work better than
CVS or anything other SCM I'm for it.  Right now, _anything_ would be
better than CVS.

-ryan