Tracking CVS in SVN [was: Re: revnum (still) considered harmful]

[Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu>]

Blair Zajac wrote:

>Zack Weinberg wrote:
>  
>
>>Michael Price <mp...@atl.lmco.com> writes:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I'm glad there are multiple revision control systems in existence
>>>(variety is the spice of life) but I only ever use one at a time. I can
>>>safely say that I've NEVER even thought about needing a "smart merging"
>>>facility to smart merge between different revision control system
>>>repositories. I doubt I ever will.
>>>      
>>>
>>For the past two weeks I've been writing a horrible script to do
>>exactly this -- between GCC's CVS repository, and my current client's
>>internal ClearCase repository (they use GCC to build their product).
>>
>>Just wanted to point out that it's not totally unheard of.
>>
>>I have no opinion on the global revision number thing.
>>    
>>
>
>Would you be interested in sharing that script?  I need to track a
>public CVS repository in a Subversion repository, and this sounds
>like the perfect script I need.
>  
>

What about the old trick of checking a CVS working copy into Subversion?
I'm told it works famously.


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Brane Čibej   <br...@xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/


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Re: Tracking CVS in SVN [was: Re: revnum (still) considered harmful]

[Blair Zajac <bl...@orcaware.com>]

Branko ?ibej wrote:
> 
> Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
> >Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Michael Price <mp...@atl.lmco.com> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I'm glad there are multiple revision control systems in existence
> >>>(variety is the spice of life) but I only ever use one at a time. I can
> >>>safely say that I've NEVER even thought about needing a "smart merging"
> >>>facility to smart merge between different revision control system
> >>>repositories. I doubt I ever will.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>For the past two weeks I've been writing a horrible script to do
> >>exactly this -- between GCC's CVS repository, and my current client's
> >>internal ClearCase repository (they use GCC to build their product).
> >>
> >>Just wanted to point out that it's not totally unheard of.
> >>
> >>I have no opinion on the global revision number thing.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Would you be interested in sharing that script?  I need to track a
> >public CVS repository in a Subversion repository, and this sounds
> >like the perfect script I need.
> >
> >
> 
> What about the old trick of checking a CVS working copy into Subversion?
> I'm told it works famously.

True.  But you don't get the same history of commits.  If you just
update to HEAD, then you say, I updated to HEAD.  If you want the
individual commits, you're still stuck writing a script to figure
out what each commit was.

Blair

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