Re: Migrating from CVS

Hi Mike,

You need to get the CVS repository, not a checked out version. CVS uses
RCS internally to store the version control information, so you need to 
have the RCS files in order to import from CVS. They have should end
in ",v". 

If you're using sourceforge, I believe you can just go to 

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/nightly/<your-project-name>-cvsroot.tar.bz2

or something like that and get a tarball with the CVS repository. 

Regards,

-Oscar

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:07:57PM -0700, Michael Goff wrote:
> I'm evaluating BitKeeper in order to move off of CVS and I'm having 
> problems importing my existing CVS repository:
> 
> [mgoff@mgoff-pc ~]$ bk import -tCVS ~/cvs/bk-convert /projects/honeycomb
> Finding files in /home/mgoff/cvs/bk-convert
> OK
> Checking to make sure there are no files already in
>         /projects/honeycomb
> OK
> 
> 
> Would you like to edit the list of 0 files to be imported? n
> 
> 
> Transfering files
>         from /home/mgoff/cvs/bk-convert
>         to   /projects/honeycomb
> Moving RCS files out of RCS directories
> Converting RCS files.
> WARNING: Branches will be discarded.
> 
> 
> Final error checks...
> OK
> Creating initial changeset (should be +0)
> Nothing to commit
> 
> I'm not sure why it mentions RCS files when I specified CVS as the type. 
> The CVS tree was checked out of out a Sourceforge repository. I searched 
> the bitkeeper-users archives and a couple of people have asked this same 
> question in the past but there was never a response. Any help would be 
> appreciated. Otherwise I'll be forced to use Subversion instead. :)
> 
> thanks,
> Mike
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