converting CVS repo to bzr

[Alexander Belchenko]

Alexander Belchenko пишет:
> Alexander Belchenko пишет:
>> Alexander Belchenko пишет:
>>> Alexander Belchenko пишет:
>>>> Alexander Belchenko пишет:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> [...]
>>>>> (To be continued).
>>>>
>>>> 3. If I understand correctly what your plugin trying to do inside 
>>>> export-from-cvs is to run command:
>>>>
>>>> cvs2bzr --dumpfile XXX.fi SOURCE
>>>>
>>>> So I've run it this way manually:
>>>>   File "C:\work\OSS\cvs2svn\trunk\cvs2svn_lib\git_run_options.py", 
>>>> line 156, in process_extraction_options
>>>>     if not (options.blobfile and options.dumpfile):
>>>> AttributeError: Values instance has no attribute 'blobfile'
>>>>
>>>> OK, it's not your fault, error comes from cvs2svn, but I want you 
>>>> notice about this. This command simply does not work with latest 
>>>> cvs2svn trunk.
>>>
>>> 4. So I've managed to run cvs2bzr only with options file. In their 
>>> example I've modified path to sort utility, plus specified valid 
>>> paths to CVS repo and output dump fi file. Here is the diff:
>> [...]
>>> So it seems conversion was successful in the end.
>>
>> I was SO WRONG... :-(
>>
>> After conversion all files has zero length... :-(
>>
>> What can I do now?
> 
> Continue talking to myself.
> 
> After changing to using co utility instead of cvs one I finally get 
> non-zero files. It seems that cvsnt used in TortoiseCVS is not suitable 
> for cvs2bzr.

OK, I've downloaded native cvs client from 
http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/stable/x86-woe/

Using cvs.exe 1-11-22 produce correct fi dumpfile identical to one 
generated with co utility. So cvs executable from CVSNT (used by 
TortoiseCVS under the hood) cannot be used at all.