Re: [Monotone-devel] Importing remote cvs repositories

[Andy Isaacson]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:49:11PM -0400, Richard Li wrote:
> In CVS history is stored server-side, not client side. So, importing a 
> checked out a branch wouldn't work because you don't have any history 
> locally. I suppose in theory you could execute a bunch of cvs 
> pserver-type commands to get history, but that would be incredibly slow 
> and painful.
> 
> You could/should just copy over the remote CVS repo files since CVS has 
> no database.

... and if the original poster was asking because they want to import
something hosted on SourceForge:  you can get a tarball of the CVS tree
at a URL of the form
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/$PROJECT-cvsroot.tar.bz2

-andy