Distributed Revision System Mercurial

Converting CVS to HG

To get hand on knowledge on the distributed revision systems like Mercurial,
just export one of your CVS Reps to a test HG Rep. Important for any repository, the history should stay intact (and hopefully will)!

A more complete guide can be found here:

Generate the repository folder and enter:
mkdir -p /path/to/hg/repo
cd /path/to/hg/repo

Generate the config file:

tailor -v --source-kind cvs --target-kind hg --repository /path/to/CVS/REP --module YourModuleName -r INITIAL >Config.tailor


for SSH access to the repository change /path/to/CVS/REP to :
:ext:USERNAME@YOURSERVER:/path/to/cvsrep


Change configfile to your needs
vi Config.tailor

Now you will at least need to change subdir from . to MODULENAME, and remove /MODULENAME from root-directory in the MODULENAME.tailor file (if it is really there).

Add the line:

patch-name-format =

Generate Mercurial project

tailor --configfile MODULENAME.tailor

Cloning repositories with ssh

To clone the repository, ssh can be used easily.
Just type the following hg clone ssh://yourlogin@yourhost/
or insert ssh://yourlogin@yourhost// in your client program as the source path.