From bob at bitmover.com Thu Jun 2 15:49:20 2005 From: bob at bitmover.com (Bob Burres) Date: Fri Jun 3 16:28:55 2005 Subject: [Bitkeeper-announce] BitKeeper to CVS converter Message-ID: <20050602224923.D3D21303E8@mail.bitmover.com> For those of you that may have missed it, I'm sending out a copy of the press release that announced our new BK to CVS converter. As part of our earlier announcement regarding our commercial focus, we offered to migrate BK repositories over to CVS on a "time available" basis. This new system automates the process and will speed conversions. If you should have any questions regarding the migration you may email us at sales@bitmover.com South San Francisco, CA June 1, 2005 -- BitMover Inc., the provider of BitKeeper, the industry's only peer-to-peer collaborative development tool, today announced the availability of their BitKeeper to CVS export tool. This tool is part of BitMover's migration strategy as they focus exclusively on their rapidly growing commercial customer base. This shift is expected to significantly accelerate BitMover's development of their next generation tools. For those projects that will not avail themselves of BitKeeper's commercial program there is an export utility that will convert a BitKeeper repository into a CVS repository. You will find instructions on how to use that utility at; http://kernel.bkbits.net/cgi-bin/cvsexport.cgi Beginning July 1, 2005, all existing BitKeeper binaries will require license keys to enable continued use. Users wishing to request commercial evaluation licenses can do so at; http://www.bitkeeper.com/cgi-bin/license.cgi The hosted projects website, BK/Bits, will continue to be a warehouse for open source projects and can be accessed with the open source client. Many projects will be converting to commercial and will continue to supply source on BK/Bits. About BitMover Inc. Founded in 1998, BitMover Inc. is a privately held San Francisco-based company that produces BitKeeper. BitKeeper shortens the software development lifecycle by providing the industry's only peer-to-peer collaborative development tool. Many of the world's largest independent software and hardware vendors have used BitKeeper to more effectively manage their development projects. Companies from startups to the Fortune 100 use BitKeeper to increase their productivity. BitKeeper enables best practices in software development through powerful workflow capabilities, gives managers absolute control over their projects, and enables greater productivity in engineers through best-in-class merge technology. More than 48,000 BitKeeper seats are deployed worldwide. For more information, please see http://www.bitkeeper.com. Thanks, Bob Burres 650 872 9900 x 112 From lm at bitmover.com Thu Jun 2 18:20:45 2005 From: lm at bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Fri Jun 3 16:28:55 2005 Subject: [Bitkeeper-announce] Re: [Bitkeeper-users] BitKeeper to CVS converter In-Reply-To: <20050602224923.D3D21303E8@mail.bitmover.com> References: <20050602224923.D3D21303E8@mail.bitmover.com> Message-ID: <20050603012045.GC11205@bitmover.com> We've done a far amount of engineering on this so that it happens in close to real time. As soon as you submit it the system goes to work on the conversion. If your repo is small it should be done in a few minutes and it will send you mail when it is done. This should be reasonably safe to use for your private data that you may have been maintaining in single user mode. The URL's are named by a hash of your root key and they are not (so far as I know) something that other people can see. If they are then we'll fix that. And once you've downloaded your repo you can send us mail and we'll delete it so that the window is short. We choose CVS because virtually every other SCM system out there can import CVS history. CVS has become sort of the universal format. --lm On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:49:20PM -0700, Bob Burres wrote: > For those of you that may have missed it, I'm sending out a copy of the > press release that announced our new BK to CVS converter. As part of our > earlier announcement regarding our commercial focus, we offered to migrate > BK repositories over to CVS on a "time available" basis. This new system > automates the process and will speed conversions. If you should have any > questions regarding the migration you may email us at sales@bitmover.com -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com