Re: Migrating from CVS

Hi Oscar & Larry,

Thanks a lot for the suggestion of importing the CVS tree from the 
Sourceforge server instead of a checked out tree. We have an internal 
Sourceforge server and do not use the public one. I was able to start 
running the import from the Sourceforge server into Bitkeeper. 
Unfortunately I ran into bugs:

2004-10-13-003 bk rcs2sccs fails with: EOF in log?: No such file or 
directory
2004-10-13-004 bk import -tCVS failed without any error message

After working around them by deleting the offending file which caused 
rcs2sccs to fail, the import worked!

thanks,
Mike

Oscar Bonilla wrote:
> 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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