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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