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Re: GNU Arch (was: Re: things to do at fri 2004-05-28 meeting ...)


On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:15:43AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:51:24AM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:48:02PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:12:10PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote:
> > > >  - gnu arch
> > > 
> > > We could start a "study group".
> > 
> > OK, it's started.
> 
> Proposed first action: Go through
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/tutorial/arch.html

Or http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7604 , as Jama just
suggested.  Nice introduction too.

> Shall this study group be active only on Enosig meetings or shall we
> convene, ... say once a week[1]? I get the feeling that with the rate
> of enosig meetings, we won't get anywhere anytime soon.x
> 
> [1] There surely is an evening without anything interesting on TV ;)

Hm, I only watch TV when I am not capable of doing anything else... ;-)

> > I've did some searching for a tool to convert a CVS repository to
> > Arch.
> 
> RobertAnderson writes:
> 
> Everybody's first thought about migrating to arch is "I won't do it
> until I've got a robust cvs to arch archive translation tool." Well, I
> thought so too, once. But I've changed my mind. First of all, such a
> tool is devilishly difficult to do right, or maybe arguably,
> impossible to do right.
<snip>

Interesting quote, thanks.

> > I found the tla-cvs-sync script, in the tla-tools Debian package.
> 
> But it might botch CVS repositories with branches :-(

Hm, I don't need a perfect cvs2arch thing.  Most of my projects don't
have branches.

> > However, I'd rather use a simpler tool: I am not interested in
> > maintaining projects in both CVS and Arch format.
> 
> Can't you just run the sync one time?

Could be...  cscvs might be helpful too.  Hm, I guess
/usr/share/doc/cscvs/README.Debian is just what I need...

Bye,

Joost (who still has: "maintain enosig webpages via Arch" high on his
prio list)


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