[darcs-users] Re: Changing _darcs

[kirstin penelope rhys]

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 15:33, Lst Recv wrote:
> David wrote:
> > Argh.  I have no idea how to repair a modified compressed file.  You
> > don't have any backups?
>
> Don't worry, I do.  But I'd rather not repeat this mistake.
>
> The solution I came up with in the meanwhile is to do the following.
>
> mkdir depot
> darcs mv [all the dirs] depot
>
> Now, the project root dir has only 2 dirs: _darcs and depot.
> Any recursive operatons should just be done out of depot, and will
> ignore _darcs.
>
> PS Unrelated topic: any hope of any syncing between darcs and Perforce
> (which I may need to use for a client...)?

I did a two stage import using p4->cvs and cvs->darcs tools. There wasn't a 
great deal of traffic between the systems, and the p4 changes were rather 
course, so after the initial import I preferred to manually synchronize them. 
But it shouldn't be difficult to adapt a cvs<->darcs tool to use perforce.


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