problem converting CVS to Mercurial on Windows

Ben Sizer bens at monumentalgames.com
Tue Jan 5 07:55:38 CST 2010


Sorry to be of no use, but I had exactly the same problem and found no resolution - the documentation on this conversion path is a bit lacking unfortunately. If I run the same command on the repository itself rather than the checked-out version it complains that there's no CVS\Root file so I never found a solution.

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Ben Sizer


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From: mercurial-bounces at selenic.com [mailto:mercurial-bounces at selenic.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Alperin
Sent: 27 December 2009 21:59
To: mercurial at selenic.com
Subject: problem converting CVS to Mercurial on Windows

I'm trying to convert an existing Windows CVS repository to Mercurial and getting the following response  and error:

C:\Windows\system32>hg convert c:\users\jeff\webs\shelter-cvs\shelter

assuming destination shelter-hg
initializing destination shelter-hg repository
connecting to :local:c:\cvs
abort: unexpected response from CVS server (expected "Valid-requests", but got '
E cvs [server aborted]: c:\\cvs: no such repository\n')

Here's the background:

*         The repository was created with TortoiseCVS so I believe it's actually cvsnt.

*         I can properly checkout from the repository using either the command line or the TortoiseCVS gui, so I think it is set up correctly.

*         I'm running Windows 7, 64-bit

*         I've installed TortoiseHG and enabled the convert extension.


Any suggestions?

Thanks, --Jeff
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