Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Equivalent of "cvs export" and CSCVS

[Charles Duffy]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 00:42, Roberto Mello wrote:
> I ran cscvs cache -b, and it spent a few minutes populating the cache, but
> I'm at a loss on what to do next. I'd like to now import the entire HEAD
> branch of CVS into an arch repository. Any help with that would be greatly
> appreciated.

Sorry 'bout the README -- it's been on my radar as something to update
for quite a long time, but I haven't quite gotten around to it yet.
Patches welcome. :)

That said, towards the end, you should find a
"I-just-want-to-use-it-to-sync-with-arch" section. Follow the
instructions there -- but roughly:

1. Create a new arch working tree (init-tree). Set the tagging method
and such as preferred.

2. Import the initial revision:
   address@hidden/cvs/dir$ cscvs totla -i MAIN.1 /path/to/my/working/tree

3. Commit later revisions:
   address@hidden/cvs/dir$ cscvs totla -c MAIN.2: /path/to/my/working/tree

4. There is no step 4


There's more complexity involved if you want to use multiple arch
versions rather than just one big category--branch--version, but that's
the gist of it.