cvs2hg problem with CVS vendor branch (was Re: cvsps wrapper script)

[Greg Ward]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:11 AM, John Hein <jhein at timing.com> wrote:
> Alas...
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/2/pub/jhein/tmp/cvs2hg/cvs2svn/cvs2hg", line 90, in <module>
>    hg_main(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]), sys.argv[1:])
[...]
>  File "/site/dist/mercurial-py25-1.3.1/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/revlog.py", line 381, in parseindex
>    data += fp.read()
> MemoryError

Known problem: see README.cvs2hg.  Hint: run pass 1:15, then pass 16
separately.  No idea why that works, but so far it has saved me from
having to investigate the MemoryError deeply.  ;-)

Greg