[cvsnt] Re: Migrating from (SCCS to) RCS to CVSNT?

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Sun Jun 18 17:11:18 BST 2006


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On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:48:38 +0300, "El Gringo Blanco"
<reverenced at gmail.com> wrote:

>The RCS repository (directory) structure is very basic, just the ,v files in
>subdirectories (which are part of/correspond to the source tree). Each
>directory in the RCS repository also has a CVS directory under it, which in
>turn holds the fileattr.xml file (these files were automatically created by
>the script that I use to convert from SCCS to RCS).
>
>This whole repository directory is then copied where all source modules
>usually exist. Into the same directory that holds CVSROOT.

Looks just fine to me. I would not worry about the migration then
since it looks like you are able to do your basic stuff successfully.
:-)

>
>Nothing else is done, after this users are able to checkout and work on
>files. The whole thing compiles just fine and binaries all seem ok (I  will
>possibly write a tool to verify each file is at the same revision it was in
>SCCS before the final migration).

Always better to be safe than sorry....

HTH

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)



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