Re: Migrating from CVS

You want

    wget http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/honeycomb-cvsroot.tar.bz2

Also, we have a better import available which finds changeset boundaries,
I'm going to try and run your repo through that one and send it to you.

--lm

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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