ClearCase Conversion To Mercurial

[Augie Fackler]

On Feb 3, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Martin Geisler wrote:

> ndowd <noahdowd at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> I am currently trying to do the exact same thing.  I want to retain
>> the commit comments for each check-in from ClearCase.  At the moment
>> I'm trying to convert from CC to Subversion using the Polarion
>> svnimport tool, which has worked extremely well.  svnimport puts the
>> main/LATEST in /trunk, and puts each tagged version in
>> /trunk/tags/mytag, and puts each branch in /trunk/branches/mybranch
>> (although that structure is configurable).
>>
>> The problem I'm running into is then converting that into HG using
>> the hg convert.  If I just run hg convert on the entire svn repo, it
>> gives me the same /trunk/branches/tags structure, which makes it
>> difficult to push a change to a tagged release into the latest
>> development repo.  I'd like the convert to correctly tag versioned
>> files so that doing a "hg clone -r mytag" will give me the correctly
>> tagged release version, then make changes in the clone and push the
>> changes back to the main development repo.
>>
>> Do I need to do as Paul is describing here, and svn co each tagged
>> version, then do an hg add?  Am I missing something?
>
> I think you should use the traditional SVN layout:
>
>  /trunk
>  /tags/mytag
>  /branches/mybranch

If you can get an svn repo in this layout, you can probably use  
hgsubversion or convert easily to get what you want.


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