[Monotone-devel] Monotone CVS sync

[William Uther]

Hi all,

I'm joining a collaborative project at work.  They have been using  
CVS (simple linear history).  Because this is a cross-site  
collaboration with firewalls, I was hoping to switch to a distributed  
RCS, but the people we're collaborating with are reluctant to change  
(which is fair enough - we're joining them and I'd be suspicious if a  
new person brought in wanted to change tools on me).  Soooo, I was  
thinking of ways to introduce Monotone for us remote users and sync  
it up with the main CVS repository.

There seem to be two options:

  i) the net.venge.monotone.cvssync branch.  (Or the  
net.venge.monotone.cvssync.refactor branch?)

  What state is this in?  I couldn't find much documentation for it,  
and what I could find was fairly old.  I was planning to have a quick  
play, but at the moment I'm a little wary.  (the cvssync branch is a  
couple of months old, but the refactor branch seems to be active.  Is  
the cvssync branch stable or abandoned?)

  ii) Tailor http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor

  This looks a little ugly too.  It is a script with a shared  
working copy that allows revisions to be moved back and forth.  That  
means you can get conflicts.  Icky.  There is a note in the readme  
that it linearises multiple heads somehow, but I haven't looked into  
that yet.

Has anyone used either option?  Any recommendations?

There is actually a third option:

  iii) Switch the cvs respository to svn.  I might be able to push  
that through.  I'd then need to sync with svn.  I could use Tailor  
for that.  Or, is there a nice cvs-sync way for montone to work with  
svn?

Thanks for any pointers,

Will        :-}