initial merging for cvs conversion

brianharris medotin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 13:39:30 CST 2008


Yes, this is exactly what I'll do.  Thanks.


Chuck.Kirschman wrote:
> 
> Assuming you have access to the repository, could you create a copy such
> that all the modules you want to convert live in 1 subdirectory?  That
> would effectively be one module to convert.
> 
> chuck
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> 
> This is a sort of feature enhancement request, though I'm not sure if
> this is
> already possible- hence this post.
> 
> I'm converting a CVS repository to Mercurial.  AFAIK you have to convert
> one
> CVS module at a time.  My issue is about the end result of merging all
> the
> converted modules' repositories together.
> 
> When I merge one at a time, the repo I merge _from_ gets all of its
> changesetIDs incremented by the highest id in the repo I merge _to_;
> this is
> expected but undesirable in this situation.  What I really want is for
> the
> changesetIDs to overlap based on the date, so that the various auditing
> tools that display changes in order of changesetID make more sense in
> the
> final converted repo.
> 
> So what I'd like to know is (a) if this multi-merge ability is currently
> possible, (b) if not, if it's theoretically possible given hg design,
> (c) if
> so, in what module you think this feature belongs.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
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