CVS Conversion to Hg

[Paul Franz]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2008-03-10 15:53, Martin Gadbois <martin.gadbois at colubris.com> wrote:
>   
>> Matt Mackall wrote:
>>     
>>> What you need to do is use CVS modules configuration to pull all those
>>> parts into one CVS checkout workspace and convert that. Don't ask me how
>>> to do that though, I've suppressed those memories.
>>>       
>> I've tried to do change the CVS "CVSROOT/modules" file to contain all
>> the sub-projects:
>> top &proj1 &proj2 &proj3 ...
>>
>> "cvs get top" recovers all the proj* modules under "top", but when I do
>> "hg convert top", it only converts  module "proj1".
>>
>> I have not tried with other converters.
>>
>> Is that the method you kinda remembered?
>>     
>
> If your CVS repository is not prohibitively large, you can manually
> 'create' a module, by repo-surgery in a copy of the entire repository.
>
> For example, if your original CVS repository is `/cvsroot' you can use a
> copy from `/var/tmp/cvsroot', like this:
>
>     mkdir -p /var/tmp/cvsroot
>     cd /cvsroot
>     find . | cpio -p -dmu /var/tmp/cvsroot
>
>     # Now manually move everything to a module called `foobar'
>     cd /var/tmp/cvsroot
>     mkdir foobar
>     mv proj1 proj2 proj3 ... projN \
>        foobar
>
>
>   

Exactly, what I figured out. :-)

Paul Franz