Re: [Monotone-devel] how to add one RCS file to a MT repository?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:44:21PM -0700, Daniel M. German wrote:
> I found a workaround: I created the directories x/y/z, then placed
> the ,v file in the z directory and used cvs_import x
> 
> It worked.

Yes, that is the correct way to do this.

> I suggest the man page and the info file get updated to reflect that
> rcs_import does nothing (I spend several hours today trying to
> understand why it wasn't doing anything :) I appreciate the help, nonetheless.

Thanks for the tip.  Some things were already updated (rcs_import
--help, the command reference in the manual), but I missed the
manpage.  Fixed now.

(To provide some explanatory tidbits, to distract you from your
unfortunate experience ;-): rcs_import just runs the rcs file parsing
and file reconstruction logic, which is not very useful on its own.
It actually does do something -- insert a bunch of files into your
database -- but it doesn't synthesize manifests or revisions to link
those files up to anything. They're just files, sitting there. You
could see them with "cat file <SHA1>", if you really wanted to, but
that's about all they're good for.)

-- Nathaniel

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