Converting large CVS repositories

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Tue Aug 7 08:17:51 CDT 2007


Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Giorgos Keramidas:
>> This is one of the reasons why I'm considering something like my latest
>> experiment with the src/ tree of FreeBSD:
> 
> 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.

cheers
  simon


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