darcs switchover

[Malcolm Wallace]

Sven Panne <Sven.Panne at aedion.de> writes:

> > I've been looking at the cvs configuration file CVSROOT/modules.
> > I /think/ the procedure is something like changing this:
> >
> >   nhc98src        -d nhc98               nhc98
> >   nhc98libraries  -d nhc98/src/libraries fptools/libraries
> >   nhc98           -a nhc98src nhc98libraries
> >
> > to this:
> >
> >   nhc98src        -d nhc98               nhc98
> >   nhc98libraries  -o darcs get --reponame=nhc98/src/libraries \
> >                                http://cvs.haskell.org/darcs/libraries
> >   nhc98           -a nhc98src nhc98libraries
> >
> > and then a fresh cvs checkout of the nhc98 would be required in
> > order to pick up the new location.
> 
> As already mentioned on the cvs-all list this morning, this does not 
> work... :-(

No?  I've tested it (using nhc98cpphs rather than nhc98libraries),
and it seems to work for me.  What is the problem?  (Of course, I'm
not trying to do a two-way synchronisation, just grafting a darcs
repo into the cvs tree.)

Regards,
    Malcolm