How do I import a cvs module into our cvs while preserving the history?
Its pretty simple:
1. get the tarball of their previous repository (the thing with all the ,files stored in it) 2. untar the thing on icarus
3. mv or cp the resulting tree to /home/cvs/modulename 4. ensure the directories are owned by the 'jakarta' Unix group 5. ensure the dirs have mode 0664 and files are 0444 6. get the appropriate entries in CVSROOT/avail (you'll need to send a request to infrastructure@ for somebody to do that; the people allowed are listed in the avail file for the CVSROOT module) 7. tell the people to "turn off" the old CVS repository