Recommended approach for converting from CVSNT to Mercurial?

[Steve Borho]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:00 PM, greg fenton <greg.fenton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a mature CVSNT repository that I'd like to convert to Mercurial.  It
> is approximately 16G, 100000 files, with two archives being ~1G in size.
> I have both pserver and direct file system access to our CVSNT repository.
>  Currently I am attempting to do the conversion on Windows, but certainly
> can move my effort to various Linuxen or even Solaris.

Platform wise, for conversions you want to follow the path most
travelled, and is Linux.  And in general you want the most recent
version of hg you can find (tip of main, or even crew) to use for the
conversion.  After the conversion you can back out to a stable hg
release for day-to-day use.

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Steve Borho