Some observations about CVS conversion (one ugly problem diagnosed)

Frank Kingswood frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk
Wed Jun 4 08:50:26 CDT 2008


Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> I tried some checkouts and it seems that while using default clean
> checkout (even from the same repo I saw the problem) I do not get such
> situation. But in my working checkout I have quite a few directories
> with full repo path in Repository file (intermixed with even more
> directories not touched by this problem). Most (all?) of them were
> checked out 7-10 years ago ;-)
> 
> So maybe this is not a true problem in fact, just recommendation to
> use fresh checkouts for conversion.

Can you please try the conversion with built-in cvsps?
You'll need to apply these three patches, it is still not in crew.

http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2008-April/006011.html

Frank


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