Re: How to merge two repositories with out loss of log & tags ?

[srinivas]

Hi Eric,
  yes you are correct. the second approach which you have told is the one
  i think we will have to go for. there are a couple of modules which
  are variants of the same code and have different tag & history.
  i will lose the tag & history, but i guess we will have to  
  live with it..

  Thanks for the response.
  regards,
  Srinivas.

Eric Siegerman wrote:
>
>On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:10:48AM +0530, Srinivas P Shenoy wrote:
>>  CVS/project which is a super set of project1 & project2.
>
>I think you mean that the two old projects were independent of
>each other, containing different files; and the new super-project
>is to contain all of them (files from p1 + files from p2),
>something like:
>       <repository>/
>               project/
>                       old-project-1/
>                       old-project-2/
>
>Is that right?
>
>If so, just copy the ,v files from the two old repositories into
>a new repository, in the tree structure you want to end up with.
>("Copy" instead of "move", so that you still have the old repo's
>as backups :-)
>
>But if, instead, the two old repositories are variants of the
>same original code base -- i.e. each one contains different
>revision histories for the same files, so that what you want to
>do is, for each file, merge its two revision and tag histories --
>that'll be a challenge, to put it mildly...  The best bet in that
>case would probably be to:
>  - import the current versions from project2 into project1,
>    losing the version and tag history
>  - do the obvious merge
>  - keep the old project2 repository around for reference, but
>    make it read-only so that people can't accidentally commit
>    changes to it
>
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