Converting CVS repositories into Mercurial Repositories

[Mads Kiilerich]

On 10/18/2010 09:50 AM, Guido Jansen wrote:
> Dear Mads,
>
> Thank you for your reply. We do have a testcase, however this needs cleaning up. I'll get a testcase to you later this week.
>
> The actual change was done by Eniko who is on a holiday right now. I think the try/except was copied from another location where something similar is done (in the same file).
>
> If there is no exception raised, will the code then work ok? We are now in the stage where we are preparing the conversion of our complete sourcecode from CVS to Mercurial. We target to go live in January 2011.

Note that the problems might be caused by inconsistencies or manual 
hacks in your cvs repo. Convert can't/won't handle all such cases - I 
guess that depends on the test case.

cvs2hg knows more magic and often works better.

/Mads