[p4] SCCS to Perforce migration ideas

Dave Birkhead daveb at data-pipes.com
Wed Mar 21 08:35:42 PST 2007


The cvs to p4 scripts (the ones that you woould use to get form RCS to Perforce) do preserve the dates.

-Daveb
---- Rick Macdonald <rickmacd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Does anybody know if this migration route somehow preserves the dates of 
> the original changes, or does the Perforce history end up looking like 
> it was all done on the day of the migration?
> 
> Rick
> 
> David Weintraub wrote:
> > RCS comes with a script to convert SCCS to RCS. From there, you can
> > use the standard cvs2p4 script.
> >
> > Take a look at this link for sccstorcs script:
> > <http://www.filewatcher.com/m/SCCStoRCS.shar.11245.0.0.html>
> >
> > On 2/13/07, Rick Macdonald <rickmacd at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >> I've been searching for SCCS to Perforce migration tools, and mostly all
> >> I've found is people asking the question.
> >>
> >> We've been using Perforce for 8 years but have just merged with a
> >> company that uses SCCS, CVS and Subversion for the three different areas
> >> of their system. Potentially, all three would be migrated.
> >>
> >> ...RickM... 
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