From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 27 14:23:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D4B16A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:23:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC86143D41 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:22:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 2166 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2003 22:22:56 -0000 Received: from dsl027-162-100.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO otter.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Dec 2003 22:22:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBRHP9314053; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:25:10 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: otter.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:25:09 +0000 (UTC) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@otter.localdomain To: Doug Lee In-Reply-To: <20031227203538.GC15420@kirk.dlee.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two little CVS questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John Mills List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:23:00 -0000 Doug - In case it's helpful ... On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Doug Lee wrote: ... > 2. Do any utilities already exist for appending one repo (,v) file to > another, or even intelligently merging repo files so that you get a > history containing all revisions from both? I moved more than 1000 files from Source Integrity to CVS. All but about 80 came through with their histories retained. For the others I had to make them "born again" as of the transition time. I used scripts found from this pointer: jm> Questions: jm> jm> 1) Can I port my histories in some useful way? ad> Given the way SI works, probably. ad> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2000-April/005974.html If that is a dead link, I can come up with copies of the scripts, or my minor variations on them. If you are moving from VSS to CVS, you may find something helpful here [Disclaimer - I didn't try this.]: **** Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:16:39 -0700 From: Chuck Karish Newsgroups: comp.software.config-mgmt Subject: Re: How to Import History files from VSS to CVS Use vcp. It exports each change from VSS into a platform-independent XML format called RevML, then imports from RevML into CVS. http://maillist.perforce.com/mailman/listinfo/revml **** You may want to post your question in that newsgroup, too. HTH. - John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu