In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:53:10 -0800, Nathaniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
njs> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:06:37PM +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: njs> > I have been looking at cvsps, which can extract patchsets from cvs njs> > repositories. Unfortunately, it fails in case of inconsistent CVS njs> > repositories (i.e. the PostgreSQL cvs repo). njs> njs> Yeah, the rumors are basically that the only actually correct tools njs> for cvs importing are: njs> -- cvs2svn njs> -- monotone's cvs_import (but it doesn't link up branches) njs> -- Canonical's internal, secret tool Hmm, does anyone have an opinion on git-cvs (the cvs importing tool for git)? Since git has (or had?) some similarities with monotone, it might be something to look at more closely... Either way, inconsistent CVS repositories is a real PITA, and there's a lot of different thoughts on how to handle them. I know no tool that handles those perfectly. Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
