Converting large CVS repositories

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

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.

cheers
  simon