Re: Importing an NT repository to Unix?

[Larry Jones]

Scott, Ryan writes:
> 
> Has anyone every done this?  I assume it's pretty simple, I have the entire
> NT repository with the ,v files and the history.  Is it as simple as just
> copying all the files/directories over to the unix box and initializing the
> repository?  Any help would be appreciated.

Almost.  You need to copy all the RCS files in binary mode (no line
ending conversion), but the administrative files (config, loginfo, etc.)
need to be copied in text mode.  If you do that, you don't even need to
initialize the repository.

-Larry Jones

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