Importing a CVS repository

[Jan Hudec]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:42:57 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Jo Vermeulen wrote:
> | Something like that would be very nice for bzr, since a lot of people
> | still use CVS (or there are still developers that rely on the CVS
> | repository). Maybe ForeignBranches will fix this?
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> While this is theoretically possible, CVS does not do whole-tree commits
> and is generally weird, so it would be very hard to do right.

Perforce's VCP seems to do a relatively decent job of aggregating CVS commits
to changesets. It is used in SVK for CVS -> SVN conversion, so it may even be
the same code GCC folks used.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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