http://bazaar-ng.org/faq.html

[Daniel Gryniewicz]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 17:39 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:49:27PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Erik B?gfors <zindar at gmail.com> told me that...
> > On Apr 7, 2005 12:16 PM, Peter Funk <pf at artcom-gmbh.de> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I just stumbled over bazaar-ng and think it looking very promising.  But:
> > > IMHO: this should be added to the FAQ:
> > 
> > It's somewhat early for that I think. CVS 2 BZR converters will be
> > written (I have already done one for darcs, but it was just a quick
> > hack)
> >  
> > >  Is (will) it be possbile to migrate existing CVS-repositories into bzr?
> > 
> > Yes
> > 
> > >  What kind of data loss is to be expected when doing so?
> > 
> > None, just remember that bzr works in a differnent way. It's changeset
> > oriented and cvs isn't. Also cvs "tags" inside the files will not work
> > (I assume).  $Id$ for example.
> 
> Which is a shame, I think. I may be sick but I personally love the tags
> and would like to retain a way to keep them (possibly more general way
> to specify some rewriting rules when checking out files, dunno if it
> could be useful for anything else though). Not that this is any major
> thing, but still would be nice to have, I think. (Perhaps with a
> per-tree keyword expansion policy possible.)

The problem, as I understand it, is that SCMs like bzr, baz, and tla
don't have file versions, so there's no number to put into that ID
string.  You could put the hash into it, but that's not very
human-friendly...

Daniel