Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Problem with SKS CVS access

[Vincent Caron]

Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Was it a CVS you imported?
>
> When we import a CVS, we do not keep the CVSROOT/, this directory is
> usually way too specific to be kept without risking to break lot of
> things.

However it contains some important metadata like tags and history. 
Importing CVS tarballs is a bit tricky and error prone, I was wondering 
if someone had it more or less scripted.

I've written a simple (experimental) solution last month, have a look at 
/usr/local/bin/sv_fixcvs : usage should be 1) unpack user CVS tarball in 
the proper place (/cvsroot/<project>), 2) run sv_fixcvs <project> so 
it'll "normalize" the files attributes. It's really basic sanitization 
though.