Get started using mercurial without cloning

[TK Soh]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
>> After reading through (part) of the book (Mercurial The Definitive
>> Guide), I didn't see, during the discussion of getting started,
>> anything but cloning offered as a way to get started.
>>
>> I might have missed it of course, but is there not something available
>> like cvs import command?  For people wanting to get started but have
>> nothing to clone?
>>
>> Specifically, I want to use my  cvs repo, and just put that bodily
>> into a mercurial repo (without any of the cvs related files or meta
>> data)
>>
>> My projects are so small on only on a single user home lan that just
>> ditching any cvs related info would not be a problem, no need to bring
>> over revision histories or whatever.
>>
>> So not really talking about converting the cvs repo so much as just
>> wanting to get all the files and directory structure that now make up
>> my cvs repo turned into a mercurial repo.  I'll probably want to
>> rearrange the actual file hierarchy somewhat.
>>
>> My current cvs repo is a series of hosts as top level directories,
>> with a directory hierarchy at least partially mirroring the separate
>> hosts.
>>
>> Not all hierarchies are the same from one host to another but there is
>> a lot of similarity throughout.
>>
>> Something along this line:
>>
>>  host1/common/<files and directories>
>>  host1/etc/<files and directories>
>>  host1/etc/mail/<files and directories>
>>  host1/usr/local/<files and directories>
>>  host1/home/reader/scripts/<files and directories>
>>  -------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      --------
>>  host2/common/<files and directories>
>>  host2/etc/<files and directories>
>>  host2/etc/mail/<files and directories>
>>  host2/usr/local/<files and directories>
>>  host1/home/reader/scripts/<files and directories>
>>  host2/projects/<file and directores>
>>
>>  [...]
>>
>> So that is roughly how the cvs repo is structured.  I'd like to just
>> copy all of a checked out module of the host1 structure (minus the CVS
>> related stuff) and create a mercurial repo from it.
>>
>> Then if I'm following along with the book, clone from that first repo
>> to the other hosts, and make whatever changes to the separate hosts as
>> time goes on.
>>
>> But I didn't see much about how to start up in this way?
>
> If you want all of that structure in one repository, simply cd to the
> root folder, then run:
>
> hg init
> hg add
> hg commit -m "initial commit"

Or to skip 'hg add':

  hg commit -A -m "initial commit"

> If there are files you do not want to be revisioned, you'll want to
> create an .hgignore file before running hg add.
>
> --
> Steve Borho
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