We need to convert a production CVS respository to SVN. We are using CVS2SVN for the raw conversion process as well as some other tools.
Because this is a live development repository, the downtime at the repository switchover point is fairly important. Our test runs of the base CVS2SVN conversion are taking approximately 5 days at present, which is too long.
I'm looking some alternative approaches for making the process somewhat incremental. One of the approaches requires that tagging and branching be restricted on the CVS repository.
Is it possible to restrict tagging and branching, but allow normal commits at the CVS repository?