[crossfire] Backup(?) CVS via darcs

[Alex Schultz]

Lalo Martins wrote:

>An now on to Tailor:
>
>Tailor is a tool originally written to sync SVN (or was it CVS?)
>repositories to Darcs.  It's now a very interesting cross-VC syncer.  I
>helped Rednaxela set up a Tailor config to mirror crossfire's cvs repo to
>bzr (with the intention of using the bzr version myself, too, once it was
>working).  I just thought I should mention.  Whatever distributed VC we
>switch to, tailor could be used to do the migration.  I'd be willing to do
>the actual work (well, what little there is, as Rednaxela already did the
>ugly parts).  And it can also be used afterwards, to keep a read-only CVS
>copy of the main branch, as you say.
>
Well, yes, not much to do to get that working, I pretty much made a 
script that deals with all of it. There is however one issue. I didn't 
get syncing back to SF cvs (i.e. two way sync. I was trying to at the 
time hack some stuff together so I could have distributed VC features 
with the existing CVS server) isn't quite working, however syncing back 
to a CLEAN cvs repository for read-only cvs purposes should work 
perfectly well.
Or in other words, when keeping a read-only cvs copy of the main branch, 
we likely couldn't overwrite the existing SF CVS module and would 
instead have to make a new module on cvs for it
Another note for those who don't know much about tailor, it DOES 
preserve revision history very nicely.

Alex Schultz

Alex Schultz