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CVS2DARCS(1)			     darcs			  CVS2DARCS(1)

NAME
       cvs2darcs - import a CVS project into Darcs

SYNOPSIS
       cvs2darcs [OPTIONS] MODULE

DESCRIPTION
       cvs2darcs  is  a	 program  to  import a CVS module/project into a Darcs
       repository, preserving all (or as much as  possible)  of	 the  revision
       history, including support for importing branches.

       Darcs  is  a  free  advanced  revision-control  program, available from
       www.darcs.net, that has many features lacking in CVS (such as the abil‐
       ity  to	have  independent  branch  repositories,  arbitrary merging of
       repositories, etc.).

       cvs2darcs checks out MODULE from the CVS repository into a  new	direc‐
       tory  (by  default, into the directory MODULE) and converts this direc‐
       tory into a Darcs repository.  (This will  take	some  time  for	 large
       repositories.  You may want to copy your CVS repository to a local disk
       to speed things up.)

       Instead of MODULE, you can also specify an existing CVS project	direc‐
       tory.  This will import the directory into a Darcs repository (preserv‐
       ing the CVS information as  with	 -p  below).   If  the	directory  was
       already	imported  into	Darcs,	then cvs2darcs will import any new CVS
       patches into Darcs (but not vice-versa).

       The most important option flags are -d  CVSROOT,	 which	specifies  the
       location	 of  the  CVS repository root (exactly as the cvs -d flag); -o
       DIR, which specifies an alternate output directory name; and -b BRANCH,
       which  specifies	 a  CVS	 branch	 to  import  (default is HEAD).	 Other
       options are described below.

       The CVS repository is not modified.  However, the output directory cre‐
       ated  by cvs2darcs is not linked to the CVS repository (technically, it
       has no CVS/ directories).  If you want to preserve the CVS  information
       in  the output directory, you can pass the -p flag; this is the default
       if the output directory already exists as a CVS-controlled directory.

OPTIONS
       -h, --help
	      Display help on the command-line options and usage.

       -V, --version
	      Print the version number and copyright information.

       -o DIR, --output-dir=DIR
	      Use/create directory DIR as the output Darcs repository,	rather
	      than MODULE (the default).

       -b BRANCH, --branch=BRANCH
	      Import  the  CVS branch named BRANCH, instead of the current CVS
	      HEAD (the default).

       -p, --preserve-cvs
	      Preserve the CVS-repository information in the output  directory
	      (default	is  to	remove	it).  If the output-directory has pre-
	      existing CVS information, it is preserved by default.

       -d CVSROOT
	      Use CVSROOT as the root directory pathname of  the  CVS  reposi‐
	      tory, exactly as for the cvs -d flag.

       -z GZIP-LEVEL
	      Use  GZIP-LEVEL as the gzip compression level in CVS, exactly as
	      for the cvs -z flag.

       -R     As for the cvs -R flag: use read-only CVS repository mode, which
	      may improve CVS performance.

       -x     As  for  the  cvs	 -x flag (used for GSSAPI and Kerberos encryp‐
	      tion).

BUGS
       Send   bug   reports   to    the	   authors:    Steven	 G.    Johnson
       <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh@earth.li>, and David
       Roundy <droundy@abridgegame.org>.

AUTHORS
       The cvs2darcs script was written by Steven  G.  Johnson	as  a  wrapper
       around Perl scripts written by David Roundy and Ganesh Sittampalam.

       Copyright (c) 2004 David Roundy
       Copyright (c) 2004 Ganesh Sittampalam
       Copyright (c) 2004 Steven G. Johnson

SEE ALSO
       darcs(1), cvs(1)

darcs				November, 2004			  CVS2DARCS(1)
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