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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:31:33 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Wilson <john_wilson100@excite.com>
To:        "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, John Wilson <john_wilson100@excite.com>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>, John Wilson <john_wilson100@excite.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Converting Perforce to CVS
Message-ID:  <5173449.983226694087.JavaMail.imail@blizzard.excite.com>

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No, there isn't.  They have a CVS to Perforce script, not Perforce to CVS
(please don't ask who in their right mind would want to go from Perforce to
CVS :)

Well, if Anton doesn't respond, I guess I'll just have to write one
myself...

John



On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:00:31 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote:

>  On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 09:17:38AM -0800, John Wilson scribbled:
>  | If you still have the Perforce->CVS conversion script, I would be very
>  | grateful if you could e-mail it to me.
>  
>  Such a script is available for download on www.perforce.com.
>  
>  | On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:13:39 +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:
>  | >  On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 03:06:20PM -0800, John Wilson wrote:
>  | >  > I apologize in advance, as this is not strictly a FreeBSD-related
>  | question,
>  | >  > but I know that a lot of FreeBSD'ers use CVS as well as Perforce,
so
>  | here
>  | >  > goes...
>  | >  > 
>  | >  > What is the easiest way to convert a P4 source repository to CVS,
while
>  | >  > preserving revisions, history, log messages, etc?   Both systems
seem
>  | to use
>  | >  > RCS, but is it as simple as copying the files?   Are there any
caveats?
>  | 
>  | >  
>  | >  I have one script, but it does not handle branches (the project I
was
>  | >  converting did not have any).  I can mail it to you if you want. 
The
>  | >  branch handling should be rather similar to binary files handling,
which
>  | >  the script already performs.
>  
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