Hello,
My company is currently negotiating with Continuus as a possible replacement
for CVS. One of the main reasons for the conversion are to add more
capability for parallel development on multiple branches simultaneously.
While you can do this with CVS, it is a manual process and requires many
wrapper scripts to support it. Continuus has a full featured promotion
model with task-based CM to allow developers to insulate their work from
each other and a stable baseline.
I am curious about any experiences people have in migrating their repository
from CVS to continuus. How did you do the switchover? What is the size of
your development team? These sorts of things.
Any information would be great.
Matt Berney
Senior Engineer
Oresis Communications, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Hennig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cvs + continuus
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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 7:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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
