Converting large CVS repositories
Simon 'corecode' Schubert
corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Fri Aug 10 13:32:05 CDT 2007
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> On Tue, 07.08.2007 at 18:12:56 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> 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.
> You should give cvs2svn v2.0 a spin. It is reasonably fast at scanning
> the CVS repo and will issue several warnings about repository
> ambiguities. These are probably the same issues fromcvs has trouble
> with.
Could you try and compare with the latest fromcvs version I pushed some hours ago? You might want to "port" the branch ignore stuff from fromcvs.rb to tohg.rb.
cheers
simon
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