Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>>>> BTW, cvs2cl (at least the version I use) works fine against a remote
>>>> repository, so it's not like Ray couldn't have gotten the answer for
>>>> himself. But a web page would be more user-friendly.
>
>> What version is this? Mine seems to need a local checkout to work at all...
>
> Yeah, mine too, but you can certainly make a local checkout if you have
> access to the remote repository.
Ah, misunderstanding..
> One thing to watch out for is that (at least in the version I use) what
> cvs2cl seems to care about is having a local directory structure that
> matches the repository. If you use the -P option to prune away local
> subdirectories that no longer contain any live files, then cvs2cl won't
> find log entries for the files that had been in that subdirectory.
> Most of the time this isn't a huge problem, but if you want a complete
> history then it's a good idea to make your checkout without -P.
Good point, will be sure not to do that...
//Magnus
