CVSROOT Conversion

[John Arbash Meinel]

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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