[cvsnt] Re: Migrating away from CVSNT?

[David Somers]

Chris Boot wrote:
> I'm currently in the process of investigating how we might migrate our
> CVSNT repository (currently on an Windows Server machine) to Subversion
> or some other RCS.

Just out of curiosity, why are you thinking of leaving cvsnt?

[snip]
> I've hit is that the actual RCS files (,v) in many cases just don't seem
> valid to the various scripts, so the conversion aborts or lots of files
> simply don't get migrated.

Some scripts that directly parse rcs files are unable to cope with some of
the extra information that cvsnt stores in them.

Greetings from (warm and sunny) Luxembourg,

David Somers
typographer/programmer/whatever