vcp (and the Perl module VCP.pm) is a system for copying resources under version control from one repository to another, possibly different, repository, or to/from RevML. Directory trees may be re-rooted, and only particular changes need be copied (or all can be copied).

Version 0.07 is now checked in to public.perforce.com as //public/revml/... at vcp_00_07 and making it's way around CPAN as VCP-0.07.tar.gz (CPAN is the preferred installation method, see below). Please test away.

This now builds and runs on Linux and FreeBSD (assuming diff and patch are found) and a couple of tricky bugs having to do with p4's reaction to the PWD environment variable and with re-adding deleted files to a p4 or cvs repository. Many thanks to Matthew Attaway for testing and helping debug these.

INSTALLATION

See the INSTALL file for details, but a normal install should be done by doing a

$ perl -MCPAN -eshell cpan> install VCP

as root. This convinces CPAN to do all the dirty work of fetching and installing required modules for you.

- Barrie