CVS to Bazaar using cvsps-import

Thomas Manson dev.mansonthomas at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 20:26:13 BST 2008


I've tryed a cvs2git conversion to give a try, and I add some warning about
my commit command not beeing in UTF-8.
Couldn't this be the origin of the issue on cvs2bzr conversion  ?

I've stop trying git because of a poor eclipse plugin... hope bzr eclipse
plugin is better ;)

Thomas

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 16:09, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>wrote:

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> Thomas Manson wrote:
> > I did undrestand that, what should I do with the product of this
> > conversion  ?
> >
> > How should I re import this into the bazaar repo ? It's not explained...
> > and to me the product of the conversion is half the job of a cvs to
> > bazaar migration...
> >
> > Btw, i've some strange error (i've also tried with utf-8 encoding):
> >
>
> ...
>
> > "/home/paquerette/.bazaar/plugins/cvsps_import/cvsps/importer.py", line
> > 601, in _get_rcs_filename
> >     filename + ',v')
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py", line 63, in join
> >     path +=  b
> > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 43:
> > ordinal not in range(128)
> > bzr 1.3.1 on python 2.5.2.final.0 (linux2)
>
> This indicates that you have a non-ascii filename.
>
> At the moment, the converter only uses --encoding to handle log messages
> and author names. We can extend that to filesystem paths, but before I
> go to far, I'd like you to check what filenames you might have that are
> not ascii, and what possible encoding they would be in.
>
> John
> =:->
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