[Bitkeeper-announce] Re: [Bitkeeper-users] BitKeeper to CVS converter

[Larry McVoy]

We've done a far amount of engineering on this so that it happens in
close to real time.  As soon as you submit it the system goes to work on
the conversion.  If your repo is small it should be done in a few minutes
and it will send you mail when it is done.

This should be reasonably safe to use for your private data that you
may have been maintaining in single user mode.  The URL's are named by
a hash of your root key and they are not (so far as I know) something
that other people can see.  If they are then we'll fix that.  And once
you've downloaded your repo you can send us mail and we'll delete it so
that the window is short.  

We choose CVS because virtually every other SCM system out there can import
CVS history.  CVS has become sort of the universal format.

--lm


On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:49:20PM -0700, Bob Burres wrote:
> For those of you that may have missed it, I'm sending out a copy of the
> press release that announced our new BK to CVS converter.  As part of our
> earlier announcement regarding our commercial focus, we offered to migrate
> BK repositories over to CVS on a "time available" basis.  This new system
> automates the process and will speed conversions.  If you should have any
> questions regarding the migration you may email us at sales at bitmover.com
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com