Nested CVS projects

I'm trying to import an application that was structured as a root directory 
under CVS control, but containing only the Makefiles and build scripts.  To 
build the app, users would checkout about 10 subdirectories under that root. 
Each of the subdirectories was itself a separate CVS project.

Trying to import from the top is a real disaster in terms of tag and branch 
conversion.  cvs2svn imputes all tags and branches seen in its recursion to 
all files in all directories, then goes back and marks files that had nothing 
to do with a particular tag/branch as 'deleted' from that branch.  Tree 
browsing in, e.g. kdesvn becomes a total mess.

For my second attempt I used a python options file to import each subdirectory 
separately, turning off the cross-project and cross-branch commits options. 
This gave me what I wanted in terms of the revision tree for all the various 
files and the subdirectories.  Problem is, I'm unable to import the build 
files in the root during the same operation!  I made a temporary copy of the 
Makefiles:

/tmp/cvsrepos/
                project/
                        Makefile,v

                CVSROOT/

and tried to bring this into the 'trunk' directory during batch import such 
that the Makefile would be a peer of the various subdirectories (since there's 
no way to bound cvs2svn's recursion, I had to fake it out by not having the 
subdirectories).  The goal was to have the repository be:

svnrepos/
           project/
                    Makefile
                    subdir1/
                    subdir2/
                     ...

Unfortunately, it does not like this and complains that the 'project' 
directory contains 'subdir1...subdirN' before quitting.  Catch-22.

The frustrating part is that if I import the subdirectories _without_ the 
Makefile I'm able to add it later manually without any complaints about the 
root of the project being occupied!  That obviously means I lose all the CVS 
history for the Makefile, though.

Is there any way to get cvs2svn to accommodate me?  If this isn't making 
sense, let me know and I'll try to clarify.

Steve

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