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Re: Importing from ClearCase


From: Doug White
Subject: Re: Importing from ClearCase
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:05:41 -0500

Thanks for all the good information on this subject, we were exploring this option because we were losing the UNIX server that was our ClearCase VOB repository. We were successful at setting up a replacement server on a Linux box and will continue with ClearCase.

Had we moved to CVS - we did decide that we would give up the various branches and versions and just check in the views of our repository at the last half dozen releases rather than try to convert all the history.

Regards

Doug White

--- "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> wrote:
> %% Mark <address@hidden> writes:
>   m> The metadata issue really isn't a big issue. You will have to cut
>   m> the fat. If the CC metadata can't be converted/used in a productive
>   m> way in a CVS, then there is not much you can do about that.
> Exactly... and if you need that metadata, then it _is_ a big issue.
> Often this metadata is an integral part of whatever SCM process you are
> using when you use ClearCase.

I said it isn't a big issue because at this point you have decided to move from
ClearCase to CVS. The metadata issue, the SCM process impact issue discussion
is long since past. Hyperlinks, atrributes, etc... they don't exist in CVS. If
this where a big issue, one would not have gotten to the point of 'I need to
convert from Clearcase to CVS, what's the best way to do it'.

Of course, I could be getting ahead of myself here, if there is a reasonable
and workable way to convert ClearCase metadata and put it into CVS in a
usable/benefitial way. I am more that happy to hear about it.

<< removed expainations about how ClearCase does directory versioning and how
that directory version can create issues converting ClearCase to CVS >>

> All the problems you discuss are very severe, but they're all derived
> from the same issue: ClearCase has directory versioning and CVS doesn't.
> If you've done a good bit of renaming/moving in your ClearCase VOB,
> you'll have seriously unpalatable choices to make trying to migrate it
> to CVS.

I just wanted to explain how the directory versioning could impact/affect a
ClearCase to CVS conversion effort. We are on the same page here.

As I said in my original response, that the best thing might be to just perform
cvs imports on milestone and important baselines from ClearCase, and not try to
convert the whole ClearCase repository, maintaining all history and file
versions.

Mark

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