It' s interesting to see a message about conversion from CVS to Continuus,
because the company I work for is currently trying to switch from Continuus
from CVS. Does anyone on this list know of a tool that would facilitate this
conversion? I am trying to find some sort of conversion tool before
attempting to cook up my own Perl script to do it.
Ryan
Eugene Kramer wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Continuus does use RCS as a backed storage format for archive files, but
> this is where similarities end. First of all, there is no branching inside
> these RCS files, all metadata is kept separately, in Informix. Also, only
> text files are kept with deltas in RCS files, all versions of binary files
> are kept as separate files.
>
> However, you should be able to migrate CVS repository to Continuus. It is
> possible to feed Continuus migration process with ,v RCS files, and it will
> preserve revisions numbers during the migration. Preserving label
> information, submission comments and magic branches is another story, and I
> am not ready to describe it now for I do not know the details. Ask me in a
> couple of months...
>
> Eugene.
>
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> Subject: cvs + continuus
>
> Does anyone know anything about combining CVS and Continuus or even
> if this is possible. I am lead to bellieve that the internal file
> representations are the same.
>
> Any information woiuld be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Nick Doan
