[cvsnt] import project from QSC with all revisions

[David Somers]

Srdjan ?urlan wrote:

> Hi folks
> 
> I can't find similar post, so I'm posting with following problem(s)
> 
> For team managment, now, we are using Team Coherence (TC),
> but we decided to replace TC with CVSNT.
> 
> I've found the way to get projects/files and all revisions of files from
> TC.
> 
> But have I'm new to CVSNT, I've found IMPORT command
> but I can't find way to import all files with all revisions for each file.

IMPORT is intended to bring in a *snapshot* of an existing source tree -
usually third-party code - not a whole bunch of revisions at once - you
need to use it in an iterative way...

> Is this is possible, is there same tutorial to read or how ?

There's no tutorial. Transferring data between version management systems is
a bit of a black art (and potentially messy and painful).

You'll need to extract each revision of each file and import it (or
add/commit).

You could ask the people who write TC if they have a way of converting their
repository format to CVS (or RCS or VSS) format... but I suspect you'll
find that they only support importing into TC and not exporting (sigh).

(BTW, if TC has a proprietary way of storing its files, you'll now
appreciate why storing your source code using a proprietary system instead
of an open one is not a good idea. )

-- 
David Somers
typographer/programmer/whatever