Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-09 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Bradley M . Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Adam Turoff wrote: > >> *: Sarathy tells me that Perforce sucks at maintaining thousands of >> anonymous checkouts, while CVS doesn't mind at all. This is a feature of perforce that is useful - it can warn you that you are about to change a file th

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-09 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > > > I see no reason why the perforce changes cannot be 'checked in' to CVS > one-by-one so that CVS builds its own representation of the change history. I've got this working now in a program called 'vcp', I need to test p4->cvs updates using the perl5 repository next

Re: Can perforce gateway to CVS without loss of metadata? (was Re: code repository)

2000-09-09 Thread iain truskett
* Nick Ing-Simmons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10 Sep 2000 06:38]: [...] > This is a feature of perforce that is useful - it can warn you that > you are about to change a file that someone else is already working > on. As can CVS. cheers, -- \def\Koschei{Iain Truskett}% http://eh