By rewriting the script to use git fast-import instead, it's now chugging along nicely at ~12.5 commits/s (ie ~47 minutes).
Two months and lots of changes later...
Another one and a half months, and several more changes...
A new export is available from git://pike-git.lysator.liu.se/pike-full-20100214
Another issue is that all commits are currently credited to the committer (ie not necessarily the author). I'll try to extract the information from git://pike-git.lysator.liu.se/pike.git.
This has now been implemented. I have however kept the original author as before in a few cases, where the credit in the commit message was for the bugreport or similar. I have also identified w few more cases. For details, please see config/Pike-real-authors in the pcvs2git repository.
Another change is that by popular demand, the split points are now enforced.
Feed-back appreciated.
As before.
Happy Valentine!
/grubba