[cvsnt] PVCS -> CVSNT migration path

Torsten Martinsen torsten at tiscali.dk
Tue Jun 29 21:26:43 BST 2004


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Tchalk at Wabtec.com wrote:

>Forgive me if this is on the list somewhere (I could not find it).   Is
>there a migration path from PVCS into CVSNT that can retain the historical
>information?  Thanks in advance.
>
I have sort-of done this before. When I started at my current employer, 
they used PVCS and were looking for a not too expensive substitute. We 
chose RCS (back then CVS didn't run well on Windows, and we had only a 
Windows server), and I wrote a tool to extract each revision (using 
PVCS) and store it again using RCS.

The tool was not perfect (it did not preserve the date of each 
revision), but the basic history was preserved. It would of course be 
just as easy to call CVS to store each revision. I can see if I can dig 
up that old code if you like.

-Torsten



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