RE: Importing from RCS

[Simo Muinonen]

James Keeley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Since the RCS repository appends a ",v" to each repository file, if I
import
> a repository from RCS into CVS, the files will have this extension.  When
I
> create a workspace, should this extension not be stripped off (or do I
need
> to remove it for each and every file)?

Note that in the process described in the manual you are not importing RCS
repository files using the "cvs import" command but by copying the
repository
",v" files directly into the CVS repository.  See the difference?  In the
case
when the files are directly copied, when you later create a workspace using
"cvs checkout", CVS will extract the desired versions of the files without
the
",v" suffix based on the history stored in the repository files, in the same
way
as RCS would handle its repository files.  But if you used "cvs import" to
add
RCS repository files, you would attempting to track the revisions of those
",v"
files, not the original files, so you would presumably get ",v" files out.


    Simo Muinonen