Importing a CVS repository

[Jo Vermeulen]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 09:30 -0500, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Jo Vermeulen <jo.vermeulen at uhasselt.be> writes:
> > An example on how do to this would be very helpful. 
> 
> tailor (http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/Tailor) does a good job for
> converting fairly straightforward cvs repositories.

I already tried tailor (version 0.9.16) but it failed. I now downloaded
the latest version (0.9.18) and am trying again. It seems to work, but
is very slow (downloading every revision from every file).

> By straightforward, I mean mostly-mainline development.  I was able,
> for instance, to convert an internal development project of 3K+
> commits that had no branches just fine. I was unable, though, to
> convert the gnucash-2 branch of the gnucash repository.

The project I'm trying to convert is not very complicated as well (no
branches). So that should work.

> I don't know that there's anything all that great for the odd cases.
> The gcc people recently converted to svn, and their cvs-to-svn script
> was obviously able to cope with some heavy-duty exploitation of CVS,
> so it is at least theoritically possible to do these sorts of high
> quality conversions.

Something like that would be very nice for bzr, since a lot of people
still use CVS (or there are still developers that rely on the CVS
repository). Maybe ForeignBranches will fix this?

I was also wondering about bzr's format. Is it still due to change? I
had a repository in Bzr 0.0.4 format, and tried to upgrade it, but that
failed because one of the weaves could not be found, which made my
repository unusable.

Kind regards,

Jo