Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
I don't know ruby nor hg, but I managed to clone your repo. Now I'm stuck with:zeisberg@cepheus:~/hsrc/fromcvs$ ruby1.8 fromcvs.rb fromcvs.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- rcsfile (LoadError)from fromcvs.rb:1
yes, you need the rcsparse module, available from the same address.
Is there some documentation how to get that to work?
I've written it a million times to different people on irc, but somehow I never got around to making a README out of it. I'll write it up very condensed here and add this as a base for a README to the the repo. From CVS to * in little time ============================ Prerequisites: - ruby (1.8.5 known working) - fromcvs, <http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg/fromcvs> - rcsparse, <http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg/rcsparse> (ruby module) - Ruby/RBTree, <http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-rbtree/> - for git: git-fast-import, <git://repo.or.cz/git/fastimport.git/> - for hg: ruby-python, <http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg/ruby-python> How to convert a CVS repo: There is still a nice frontend missing, so you have to invoke the scripts by hand. % mkdir gitdest && (cd gitdest && git init) % ruby togit.rb /path/to/cvsroot modulename gitdest % cd gitdest && git-repack -a -f -d # optional, saves 20% or so If you want to get nice author names, create setup the file authormap: cat > /path/to/cvsroot/CVSROOT/authormap corecode Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx> jdoe Jon H. Doe <hannidoe@xxxxxxxxxxx> branch-fixup CVS repo conversion <flames@xxxxxxxxxxx> that's about for the quickstart. be sure to report conversion errors or runtime issues (possibly due to obscure CVS repo activity) to me. cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work - Mac +++ space for low €€€ NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ / Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \
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