Re: FYI: commits-to-cvs disabled (switching to git)

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 9/19/2007 5:26 PM:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> I'll turn off cvs soon, probably tomorrow.
> 
> By "turn off cvs" do you mean to disable even read-only access to old
> versions?  I hope not; I still have a bunch of old source trees,
> checked out from CVS, that I occasionally need to do a "cvs diff" on.

I don't think plain cvschroot (from cvsutils) will do the trick, because
the module name also changes as part of the conversion from one server to
the other.  But it should still be possible to write up a script that can
convert an existing checked-out tree from the old CVS repository to the
new git-based one, without losing your local checkouts - here's the
significant differences between the two masters:

$ cat gnulib1/CVS/{Repository,Root} gnulib1/modules/CVS/{Repository,Root}
gnulib
address@hidden:/sources/gnulib
gnulib/modules
address@hidden:/sources/gnulib

$ cat gnulib2/CVS/{Repository,Root} \
  cat gnulib2/modules/CVS/{Repository,Root}
/srv/git/gnulib.git/HEAD
:pserver:address@hidden:/gnulib.git
/srv/git/gnulib.git/HEAD/modules
:pserver:address@hidden:/gnulib.git

- --
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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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