conversion from cvs to hg

[Michael Haggerty]

On 12/24/2010 11:26 AM, Christoph Egger wrote:
> do you have any advices to make conversion from cvs working?
> http://wiki.netbsd.org/mailing-lists/tech-repository/

Yes.  Unless you absolutely need incremental conversion, don't use "hg
convert", with which many people have had problems.  Try the cvs2hg
patches [1] to cvs2svn [2] instead.

Incidentally, the web page that you cite also mentions problems
converting to git.  Such problems are typical of cvsps-based tools and
should not be considered acceptable.  For converting to git, try using
the trunk version of cvs2git (also part of the cvs2svn family of tools).
 cvs2git was just *very* carefully tested by the folks at PostgreSQL
then used for their conversion.

Michael

[1] http://vc.gerg.ca/hg/cvs2svn/
[2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/

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Michael Haggerty
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