How To: CVS to Mercurial conversion using ConvertExtension
May 2nd, 2011
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For my personal projects, I “was” using CVSNT for version control. I had an old laptop which was crashed few days ago. Fortunately, I had a backup of all the projects CVS files. I got new laptop and I had to install CVSNT but I got another shock. Now for CVSNT, I have to pay $$$ and cannot download older version which I was using. After hours of research, I found the version I was using at http://www.cs.unc.edu/Courses/jbs/tools/downloads/cvsnt/. Finally I installed CVSNT. Now I have installed TortoiseHG for Mercurial and tried its “convert” extension but I was getting following error.
initializing destination hg\GD repository connecting to :sspi:Administrator@localhost:/cvsdata abort: unexpected response from CVS server (expected "Valid-requests", but got 'E cvs [server aborted]: Root :sspi:Administrator@localhost:/cvsdata must be an absolute pathname\n')
After struggling a lot with different trial and error methods, I found a solution. Read more…
