Combining several CVS modules into one HG repository

Wed Aug 29 02:21:30 CDT 2007

David I. wrote:
> OK, I think I now understand what you are saying. 
> 
> If I symlink the original directories to a new parent, the new parent will not have a CVS subdirectory, so it won't be functional from a CVS standpoint (no CVS/Entries in bigmod), but the repository conversion tools can handle it? Is the CVS meta-data not needed for repository conversion (e.g. CVS/Entries, CVS/Repository, CVS/Root, CVS/Tag)? Should I manually write a CVS/Entries, etc for the new "bigmod" root?

Oh now I see.  No, I was talking about the repository, i.e. the directory containing the ,v files.  I'm *not* talking about a checkout.  Fromcvs at least needs the repository present.  If you want to make these modifications, both tailor and hg convert should as well work with those, but you still need to do these modifications in the repository.

cheers
  simon

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