Converting cvs modules question

[Mathieu Clabaut]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Chuck Kirschman <
Chuck.Kirschman at bentley.com> wrote:

> Mathieu Clabaut wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Belinda Lawson <briffee at gmail.com<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=briffee@gmail.com>
> > <mailto:briffee at gmail.com<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=briffee@gmail.com>>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     When I use the "hg convert" command on my cvs checkout, each module
> >     becomes a mercurial repository.  I would like to combine several of
> >     those repositories, and I read that I can use "hg pull -f" to pull
> >     repositories into another one.  However, when I do that, I get the
> >     following output:
> >
> >     hg at dev666:~/repos/onair/myrepo$ hg pull -f
> /home/hg/repos/onair2/myrepo
> >     pulling from /home/hg/repos/onair2/myrepo
> >     requesting all changes
> >     adding changesets
> >     adding manifests
> >     adding file changes
> >     added 1787 changesets with 9172 changes to 2153 files (+42 heads)
> >     (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
> >
> >     But I don't know what to do after that.  Merge doesn't seem to work.
> >
> > In fact you should merge heads two by two.
> > But it will not resolve your problems if your CVS modules share common
> > tags. Indeed you'll have to merge tags file which becomes not possible
> > for the moment where several branches in your new hg repository share
> > some tags.
> >
> > I'm still looking for a way of doing  what you are trying to achieve.
> > I've tried by checking out all modules at once (cvs co .) but then hg
> > convert fails.
> >
> >  Any tip which would allow to convert several CVS modules in one hg
> > repository *while preserving* tags across modules ?
> >
> > -mathieu
> >
>
> If you have access to the actual repository, the obvious solution is to
> create a repository that contains multiple modules in one subdirectory.
>  So in the foo repository you have top-level modules bar, baz, and bat.
>  In you conversion copy of the repository you create the top level foo
> directory and put bar, baz, and bat under it.  Then convert normally.
>

That's nice, for one time conversion. But I'm looking forward too achieving
incremental conversion (The CVS repository is still a live one).
I'll perhaps have a look in convert extension, to see how hard it would be
to convert a reopistory checked out with "cvs co ." command.

-mathieu
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