Converting large CVS repositories

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Tue Aug 7 10:12:56 CDT 2007


On 2007-08-07 17:01, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode at fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On 2007-08-07 15:17, Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode at fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
>>>Ollivier Robert wrote:
>>>> Well, not importing the whole CVS history has been considered as
>>>> one option for when we decide to move away from CVS but the jury's
>>>> still out.
>>>
>>> I could tell you the problems in the cvs tree (or how you locate a
>>> problem), then you could provide a custom fixup in the RCS files or
>>> as a plugin for the converter, so that the conversion runs smoothly.
>>
>> That would be amazing.  Does cvs20hg support plugins already?  I
>> wasn't aware of that :-)
>
> No. cvs20hg is broken anyways.  I was referring to fromcvs.  It could
> be extended to allow for plugins, but the question is where to hook
> them.

I think the first thing we can do is find out which parts of the CVS
tree of FreeBSD src/ contain repo-surgery which confuses fromcvs.

I haven't tried fromcvs yet, but I can do this over the weekend (in case
it takes a long time).  In the meantime, if you have already identified
parts of the CVS tree which we can focus on, that would be great.



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