converting CVS repo to bzr

[Alexander Belchenko]

Hi Ian,

I'm trying to convert CVS repo of FTE project to bzr with your 
fast-import plugin.

I'm working on Windows with standalone bzr.exe v.2.0.1 so my setup is 
interesting corner case. And BTW this is most default setup so far.

What I found so far.

1) In the help for fast-export-from-cvs you wrote:

   Windows users need to install GNU sort and use the `--sort`
   option to specify its location. GNU sort can be downloaded from
   http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/.

This is wrong advice, because:

a) there is not possible to download zip from that page anymore: 
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/UnxUtils.zip gives me error 403.

b) The page http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2bzr.html claims:

GNU sort, which is part of the coreutils package, see 
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. Binaries for Win32 can be found 
at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/. Windows sort.exe is *not* adequate.

So I've downloaded sort from http://gnuwin32.sf.net project. If it won't 
be enough I'll looking on gnu.org.

2) Because with standalone bzr.exe there is not possible to "install 
cvs2svn v.2.3 or later" then I did batch file called "cvs2bzr.bat" in 
the current directory where I'm trying to run conversion. Unfortunately 
your tool does not see it anyway:

C:\work\OSS\FTE\fte.sf.net\FTE>dir
  Volume in drive C is XP
  Volume Serial Number is B47B-BD42

  Directory of C:\work\OSS\FTE\fte.sf.net\FTE

25.10.2009  13:36    <DIR>          .
25.10.2009  13:36    <DIR>          ..
25.10.2009  13:21                60 cvs2bzr.bat
25.10.2009  13:10    <DIR>          CVSROOT
25.10.2009  13:10    <DIR>          fte
                1 File(s)             60 bytes
                4 Dir(s)  29 871 513 600 bytes free

C:\work\OSS\FTE\fte.sf.net\FTE>cvs2bzr.bat --version
cvs2bzr version 2.4.0-dev

C:\work\OSS\FTE\fte.sf.net\FTE>cvs2bzr --version
cvs2bzr version 2.4.0-dev

C:\work\OSS\FTE\fte.sf.net\FTE>bzr fast-export-from-cvs fte fte.fi
bzr: ERROR: cvs2bzr missing. Please install cvs2svn 2.30 or later and 
try again.

C:\work\OSS\FTE\fte.sf.net\FTE>bzr -Derror fast-export-from-cvs fte fte.fi
bzr: ERROR: bzrlib.errors.BzrError: cvs2bzr missing. Please install 
cvs2svn 2.30 or later and try again.

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 842, in exception_to_return_code
   File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 1037, in run_bzr
   File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 654, in run_argv_aliases
   File "C:\work\Bazaar\plugins\fastimport\__init__.py", line 775, in run
   File "C:\work\Bazaar\plugins\fastimport\exporters\__init__.py", line 
323, in fast_export_from
BzrError: cvs2bzr missing. Please install cvs2svn 2.30 or later and try 
again.

I dunno why it don't like my bat file, so I'll try to export manually 
with instructions from page http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2bzr.html.

(To be continued).