Right after the dot bomb bust, many of the open source project I was following gained a lot of momentum. All those techies out of work, what're they going to do, sit around and not use their computer?

I get them a couple of times a week. They're robo calls, with the usual "press 1 to ..." and they all start with the claim to help you with your CC rates and that this is "your last chance".

Once, I played them. I pressed 1. Said I was interested. Was asked if I had "at least $4000 in CC debt." Once I passed that test, I was handled off to the closer, a really slick asshole who asked for my CC#'s. I stalled. He waited. I acted dumb and said I'd look for my statements. I just set down the phone. 10 minutes later I hung up. I immediately got a call back. At first, he thought I accidentally hung up, but I hung up again. He called back again and before I hung up again I hear "you'll be sorry..." The next 5 rings were people that asked to be taken off their list. I had to take the phone off the hook for 30 minutes.

Neither worked on my 18 yr old CVS repo (that was populated with 7 yr old RCS files). What I did find was fromcvs. I found a couple of bugs, with the author fixed very quickly. It is also fast. My 3.5G CVS repo was converted in about an hour. Both of the others took 10+ hours (and didn't produce usable output). The biggest reason I love it: it allows incremental updates from CVS to GIT. You can run it any number of times and it imports the new stuff. You do need to leave the git repo you are importing into alone (no commits other than the import commits).

I still have more testing to do before we go live, but it's looking very, very nice.

I used to use mwave, until 3 consecutive computers I purchased from them had problems. These were complete systems that were supposed to be tested, and they were DOA. Never used them again.

I recently used MagicMicro.com and had a very good experience with them.