https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/tags/cvs/Recent content in CVS on The Lone C++ Coder's BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenSat, 12 Mar 2022 19:47:03 -0500https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2022/03/12/migrating-source-from-rcs-to-mercurial/Sat, 12 Mar 2022 19:47:03 -0500Timo Geuschhttps://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2022/03/12/migrating-source-from-rcs-to-mercurial/<p>Version control system migrations are a fact of life for developers in any longer lived codebase. In fact, I&rsquo;ve had a hand in quite a few migrations as newer, more workable version control systems became available. Also, like a lot of developers, I&rsquo;ve got fragments of source code dating back quite some years floating around on various servers and development machines of mine. Not necessarily code that is still being used, but still code that I don&rsquo;t want to just delete forever. Some of the oldest code I have uses <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/">RCS</a> for source control and hasn&rsquo;t been touched for a long, long time. As my machines generally don&rsquo;t have anything as old as RCS installed for version control, I decided this might be a good time to migrate the code to my version control system of choice, <a href="https://www.mercurial-scm.org/">Mercurial</a>.</p>