Re: repo manipulation

[Todd Denniston]

Marko Käning wrote, On 08/19/2008 10:35 AM:
> Hi Todd,
>
> In my description I used paths which would be used with -d option on 
> checkout.
<SNIP establishment that we are talking about data directories and not the 
control dir.>
> Well, of course I wanted to keep the HISTORY! ;)
>
> > {I am almost betting you are going to send another message indicating you were
> > talking more about $CVSROOT/MyVersionControlledDataDirectory instead of the
> > $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/module module name control file, but I am going to make you
> > send it, i.e., if you meant something other than $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/module you
> > should have not have abstracted as much.}
> Well, I meant of course the $CVSROOT/MyVersionControlledDataDirectory. The 
> module named module was a bad choice for this example, I see... Well, and 
> here it is, my other message you made me send... ;)

In this case, doing a cp of the data should work with out problem, as this is 
just a special case of "Backing up a repository"[1].


> > did your convert work BEFORE you did the copy?
> > Have you asked the mercurial convert program author for help?
> Not yet, at first wanted to make sure that I am not messing up my CVS repo 
> by doing so, before I contact the convert author.

You might be able to get a little more information if you turn some debugging 
on...
I suggest reading the docs about the mercurial convert program and see if it 
has some debugging or verbose flags you can set, and you could probably set 
the cvs option for tracing[2] or set $CVS_CLIENT_LOG [3] to see if it 
mercurial is getting data by using cvs (you might have to set tracing in the 
cvsrc file).



For the URLs below, please download 
http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/source/stable/1.11.22/cederqvist-1.11.22.html.tar.bz2
to your home directory and put a copy of it in /tmp.
cd /tmp
tar -xjvf cederqvist-1.11.22.html.tar.bz2

[1] file:///tmp/cederqvist-1.11.22.html/cvs_2.html#SEC24
[2] file:///tmp/cederqvist-1.11.22.html/cvs_16.html#IDX211
[3] file:///tmp/cederqvist-1.11.22.html/cvs_19.html#SEC185
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Todd Denniston
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Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter