CVSROOT Conversion

[John Arbash Meinel]

Tom Browder wrote:
> On 1/2/08, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> 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:
> ...
>>>   bzr cvsps-import cvsroot . bzr_cvsroot
> ...
>>> checkout the head (no branch) of module X with bzr?
> ...
>> bzr checkout /usr/local/bzr_cvsroot/bzr/branches/HEAD
> 
> So all I can do is get the whole repository?  Isn't there some way to
> get just the one module?  If not, I can see where I should import each
> module separately, perhaps into a single directory where all my shared
> repositories will be found.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Tom
> 
> Tom Browder
> Niceville, Florida
> USA
> 

Distributed VCS generally works at a "project" or "tree" level. There
are a few reasons for this which I can go into if you want, but all of
them do it.

John
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