cvs2svn

When using cvs2svn how can you rename symbols such that a branch and tag resolve to the same name?

I am working on converting a CVS repository that has the following symbols (among others): tcm-6.1.0-branch -- a branch tcm-6.1.0 -- a tag Using the standard transformations cvs2svn identifies them properly. However, I'd like to do some clean up during the conversion. Specifically I'd like to drop the redundant '-branch' portion of...

cvs2svn mime types...

In order to take in account Richard's comment and Steen's answer of I have to specify independently of type mime file and independently of the type file marked in CVS, I am looking for how to treat all files as binary file in cvs2svn ? Perhaps is not possible ? Please Richard (or others), may you tell me how to know the marked type in C...

cvs2svn and merge info

I want to convert a CVS project to Subversion, using cvs2svn. It has a main trunk (HEAD), with several temporary development branches created from the trunk. Before we convert it, we'll merge the latest changes from the trunk into all of the dev branches. But they will also have changes that haven't been merged back into the trunk yet. ...

cvs2svn fails with "xxx is not a valid ,v file"

I finally found an answer to my question when I wanted to post it! However I'll still post it, including my answer, in case it helps someone else: When converting from CVS to Subversion cvs2svn failed on some files with the message "xxx is not a valid ,v file" What's the problem? ...

Subversion issue after cvs2svn

I am using eclipse / subclipse for development. I also have the TortoiseSVN client. I am trying to move a CVS repository. The old CVS repository had a single project. We want to reogranize as several of the projects have their own development streams, and should be managed separately. I ran the standard full move of the repository...

Need to convert a project trunk into a branch when using CVS

Hello! I'm converting a large, multi-project CVS repository into Subversion using cvs2svn. It's working really nicely, but there are a few CVS projects that really ought to be branches of other projects. Using an options file I'm able to specify that the trunk of project 'ShouldBeBranch' should be placed in '/OtherProject/branches/Shou...

Installing/configuring gdbm Python module for cvs2svn?

I am trying to install cvs2svn on a Solaris 10 machine. It has Python 2.4.4 on it. I don't have root access. When I downloaded cvs2svn and tried to run it, it said ERROR: cvs2svn uses the anydbm package, which depends on lower level dbm libraries. Your system has dbm, with which cvs2svn is known to have problems. To use cvs2svn, you mus...

SVN 1.3 VS 1.5 (latest)

Our IT guy has installed SVN 1.3, the current version is 1.5. We are migrating from CVS to SVN, so do I lose much by staying with 1.3? I like to run CVS2SVN and move to SVN without the need of writing any scripts Also: in CVS we have on project with multiple directories in there. What is the best practice in SVN? There is a nightly bui...

SVN layout -- best practice

In CVS we have on project with multiple directories in there. There is a nightly build that has to pull in stuff from different directory in the same CVS project in order to build the nightly build. So I should have that in mind and I have to modify the build script to check things out from different repositories if we move to SVN. I r...

source file control cvs to svn conversion?

Hey guys. I currently use cvs to control all my source files but want to move away from cvs to svn. Could anyone give me some pointers? I have loads of projects but they are all similar therefore would like to just have the structure: Trunk. /prj1,2,3, etc Branch. As above Tag. As above I am going to be using the cvs2s...

Svn 1.5.x vs. latest version

Would I be missing out something really important (feature / optimization & speed) if I install SVN 1.5.2 instead of the latest 1.6.x? ...

Alternative to cvs2svn for performing cvs to svn migration

I am trying to perform a migration from cvs to svn on my our new XServe server which is running Mac OSx server edition. There is a known conflict between the dbm libraries that come pre installed with mac osx and the cvs2svn. The error it gives is this "ERROR: cvs2svn uses the anydbm package, which depends on lower level dbm libraries....

cvs2svn conversion at directory level

Hi, I have access to a repository that IT has created for me. http://oursvn_server/mysvn_repo I have access to the CVS files which can be accessed via /proj/cvs/ I want to convert all files/directories from /proj/cvs/* to http://oursvn_server/mysvn_repo/* I can't do this at /proj/cvs/ level and I want to bring the directories in /pr...

cvs2svn conversion ?

Hi I converted my CVS repository into SVN repository. It worked great, but one problem had occured.... I converted using a dumpfile, and the command was: cvs2svn –encoding=( ) –sort=(PATH TO sort.exe) --default-eol=native –dumpfile=PATH\name.svn_dump –svnadmin=(PATH TO SVN ADMIN) (PATH TO REP) loading the dump file: svnadmin l...

cvs2svn include single branch and head ?

Hi, I'm using cvs2svn to convert my repository. I've done it with success in one repository, and now my new problem is a second repository. In my new conversion, I want to convert only the HEAD and one branch. cvs2svn only have "exclude" function for branches, but not "include". I have many many branches and excluding each and every on...

cvs2svn crash before end

I run the cvs2svn couple of times successfully. Now I ran it and it crashed just before the end, at pass 16. I'm using dumpfile. I get the following error : what can it be? thanks! ...

Point SVN Externals at a CVS Repository

Is it possible to point an SVN Externals directive at a CVS repository? ...

cvs2svn changes binary files

I'm using cvs2svn to migrate from CVS to SVN. I've noticed a problem with my binary file after the conversion was completed. I'm using auto-props file, which is very helpful. After the conversion I took the file from CVS and compared it to the same file from SVN. The file is binary. Using WinMerge, I see that there is a difference bet...

cvs2svn 2.3.0 crashes in pass 16

I've posted a question regarding cvs2svn crashes (link text). I was suggested to update to cvs2svn v2.3.0 and so I did and it worked. now suddenly cvs2svn crashes again before the end, what can be the problem again? I'm using dump file. ...

Migrating large CVS repository to SVN

I have a large CVS repository module (~2.2GB of CVS and has 10 years of active development). I'm attempting to migrate it to SVN in order to host it on Google Code, which has about 1GB limit. Is there a way to do a partial migration, where I only migrate the last year worth of changes only? cvs2svn and cvs2ps in the documentation disc...