workflow: cvs <-> hg mercurial
Patrick Drechsler
patrick at pdrechsler.de
Fri Jul 13 04:05:49 CDT 2007
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com> writes:
> On Wednesday, 11 July 2007 at 23:46, Patrick Drechsler wrote:
>> I have to work with a CVS repository. And Windows (XPSP2).
>>
>> Since I am not always connected to the CVS-Repository (and have a
>> "only-commit-when-functional" policy), I would like to mirror the code
>> locally. From what I have read distributed version control might solve
>> the problem.
>>
>> The only interesting "howto" page I found was (after excluding "git"):
>>
>> http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:VladVukicevic/Mercurial_Testing
Thanks for your feedback!
> That looks pretty clunky.
ACK (Although it seems to work).
> I'd suggest maintaining a mercurial import of the CVS tree using the
> convert extension. Clone and pull from that for your local
> work. Pushing back to CVS still needs some manual attention, but the
> cvscommit extension may fit the bill. You could probably do
> something in a loop around hg outgoing.
I will give this approach a try during the weekend, thanks a lot for
the pointer!
Cheers,
Patrick
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