Comments on: Moving from CVS to Mercurial http://www.gijsk.com/blog/2009/03/moving-from-cvs-to-mercurial/ Except not really. Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:59:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gijs http://www.gijsk.com/blog/2009/03/moving-from-cvs-to-mercurial/comment-page-1/#comment-61624 Gijs Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:04:15 +0000 http://www.gijsk.com/blog/?p=98#comment-61624 <strong>abgalphabet:</strong> I'm not sure, I wasn't interested in tags. From the steps, did you by any chance use hg strip to remove the revision that added all the tags? That would explain it. :-) Otherwise, you may want to not use the bits about splitting out all the CVS branches (usebranchnames), and see where that gets you. I am by no means an expert on cvs->hg, but simply wrote these steps down in an effort to share what worked for me. If you have issues with these steps, I think the HG mailing lists, fora, newsgroups or IRC channels might be your best bet to get help to get it to do exactly what you want. Also look at the official wiki pages for the ConvertExtension (linked above). abgalphabet:

I’m not sure, I wasn’t interested in tags. From the steps, did you by any chance use hg strip to remove the revision that added all the tags? That would explain it. :-)

Otherwise, you may want to not use the bits about splitting out all the CVS branches (usebranchnames), and see where that gets you. I am by no means an expert on cvs->hg, but simply wrote these steps down in an effort to share what worked for me. If you have issues with these steps, I think the HG mailing lists, fora, newsgroups or IRC channels might be your best bet to get help to get it to do exactly what you want. Also look at the official wiki pages for the ConvertExtension (linked above).

]]> By: abgalphabet http://www.gijsk.com/blog/2009/03/moving-from-cvs-to-mercurial/comment-page-1/#comment-61612 abgalphabet Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:03:13 +0000 http://www.gijsk.com/blog/?p=98#comment-61612 I don't find any tag has been converted from cvs. how come? I don’t find any tag has been converted from cvs. how come?

]]> By: abgalphabet http://www.gijsk.com/blog/2009/03/moving-from-cvs-to-mercurial/comment-page-1/#comment-61610 abgalphabet Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:36:49 +0000 http://www.gijsk.com/blog/?p=98#comment-61610 very good article in cvs->hg. I used to convert cvs->git via git cvsimport/cvsps but it's not very reliable. very good article in cvs->hg. I used to convert cvs->git via git cvsimport/cvsps but it’s not very reliable.

]]> By: Schrati http://www.gijsk.com/blog/2009/03/moving-from-cvs-to-mercurial/comment-page-1/#comment-44367 Schrati Fri, 01 May 2009 06:48:38 +0000 http://www.gijsk.com/blog/?p=98#comment-44367 No idea what you're writing about, but anyway, greetings to where ever you are! No idea what you’re writing about, but anyway, greetings to where ever you are!

]]> By: Gijs http://www.gijsk.com/blog/2009/03/moving-from-cvs-to-mercurial/comment-page-1/#comment-41379 Gijs Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:57:22 +0000 http://www.gijsk.com/blog/?p=98#comment-41379 Ian: Because Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and a whole load of other Mozilla projects moved to Mercurial, so it would make no sense to move to something else (except perhaps SVN if we somehow had reasons not to use distributed version control, or something). It would only have complicated matters if we had moved to Bazaar or git, when what we're trying to do is simplify things (in particular for localisers and for the SeaMonkey project). Ian: Because Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and a whole load of other Mozilla projects moved to Mercurial, so it would make no sense to move to something else (except perhaps SVN if we somehow had reasons not to use distributed version control, or something). It would only have complicated matters if we had moved to Bazaar or git, when what we’re trying to do is simplify things (in particular for localisers and for the SeaMonkey project).

]]> By: Ian M http://www.gijsk.com/blog/2009/03/moving-from-cvs-to-mercurial/comment-page-1/#comment-41377 Ian M Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:10:09 +0000 http://www.gijsk.com/blog/?p=98#comment-41377 Out of interest, why Mercurial and not git? Out of interest, why Mercurial and not git?

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