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rcs import?

Subject: rcs import?

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3 messages between Apr 12, 2007 and Apr 12, 2007.

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James Cloos· Apr 12, 2007, 11:00 UTC · lore

Has anyone written import support for rcs repos?

(I've a few config hierarchies using RCS I'd like to convert.)

-JimC

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Simon 'corecode' Schubert· Apr 12, 2007, 15:09 UTC · re: James Cloos · lore

Re: rcs import?

James Cloos wrote:

> Has anyone written import support for rcs repos?
> 
> (I've a few config hierarchies using RCS I'd like to convert.)

you can use my fromcvs importer, which should work with RCS repos as well.  tell me how it works.

cheers
  simon

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Linus Torvalds· Apr 12, 2007, 15:21 UTC · re: James Cloos · lore

Re: rcs import?

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, James Cloos wrote:

>
> Has anyone written import support for rcs repos?
> 
> (I've a few config hierarchies using RCS I'd like to convert.)

Just migrate to CVS first, and then use "git cvsimport".

CVS obviously *uses* RCS as the individual file format, so migrating a set of RCS files to CVS really is pretty damn trivial. It's basically just copying the RCS *,v files over to the appropriate CVSROOT directory structure and adding some Entries files. I think CVS even comes with a "rcs-to-cvs" conversion script.

Yeah, just checked: google for "rcs-to-cvs.sh"

(I don't know how well it works, but I can't imagine that it won't do a good job. CVS really largely is "RCS with some scripts around it")

		Linus