Re: PVCS (or RCS) importer for Git?

From: Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date: Mar 31, 2008, 06:26 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803310723440.26808@ds9.cixit.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803281730060.18259@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin:

> I once tried, but apparently, there are different repository formats
> for PVCS. For example, pvcs2cvs did not work for me.

Yeah, the format is binary. That is why I am trying to use the command-line tools.

> IIRC I used a simple shell script to convert pvcs (using the
> mega-slow command line tools) to ,v files.  Then I converted that to Git.

That is, more or less, what the pvcs2cvs script does. I've had some success with it.

> Judging from the problems of importing CVS to Git (which mostly stem
> from the file-versioning paradigm), I suggest not trying to be too
> clever, but convert it to cvs and use a good cvs importer, such as
> cvs2svn (which despite its name also imports into Git) or parsecvs.

Given that the PVCS history file ("trail") that I was trying to follow didn't quite work out, because there had been some direct manipulations of the PVCS repository that were not recorded there, I think that is the way I will have to go. That means I do lose the tagging information (timestamp and tagger), but I can live with that...

Thanks for the input.

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