Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:25:09 +0000 (UTC) From: John Mills <johnmills@speakeasy.net> To: Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two little CVS questions Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312271654390.13959-100000@otter.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20031227203538.GC15420@kirk.dlee.org>
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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 <karish@well.com> 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
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