CVSROOT Conversion
John Arbash Meinel
john at arbash-meinel.com
Wed Jan 2 17:42:53 GMT 2008
Tom Browder wrote:
> I just installed bzaar on a linux box and want to try to convert a
> large CVS repository to try out bazaar.
>
> My CVSROOT is "/usr/local/cvsroot".
>
> I made a new directory for the conversion: "/usr/local/bzr_cvsroot" (I
> did not use "bzr init-repository").
>
> I executed the following to convert all my modules:
>
> cd /usr/local
> bzr cvsps-import cvsroot . bzr_cvsroot
>
> After a long time, I got an apparently good completion. I browsed
> around the new directory and can find all my rtags--good! And I find
> all my modules referenced in "staging/ROOT.dump". Now how can I
> checkout the head (no branch) of module X with bzr?
>
> I've tried:
>
> bzr checkput /usr/local/bzr_csvsroot/X
>
> without success. I've also tried inserting various subdirs of
> "bzr_cvsroot" without success.
>
> I'm sure I'm missing something obviousor I've done something stupid,
> but a kick would help.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Tom
>
> Tom Browder
> Niceville, Florida
> USA
>
>
bzr checkout /usr/local/bzr_cvsroot/bzr/branches/HEAD
I would generally not recommend converting the entire repository with
".". It is supported, but you will usually want to convert modules
separately.
John
=:->
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