cvs2svn

TortoiseSVN doesn't connect to repository

I've been using cvs2svn to migrate one of my repositories to SVN. When I open it with TortoiseSVN, it gives me an error: Expected FS format between '1' and '3'; found format '4' what does that mean? thank you. ...

svn merge problems after cvs2svn migration

Our team had a cvs repository, which we converted to svn via cvs2svn. Our repository has a main branch (let's call in main), that effectively serves as trunk (even though it was technically branched off from trunk far in the past). After the cvs2svn conversion, I branched off main to branch. I made a small change in branch, and then a...

Converting from CVS to SVN to Hg, does 'hg convert' require pointing to an SVN checkout or just a repo?

As part of migrating full CVS history to Hg, I've used cvs2svn to create an SVN repo in a local directory. It's first level directory structure is: 2010-04-21 09:39 AM <DIR> . 2010-04-21 09:39 AM <DIR> .. 2010-04-21 09:39 AM <DIR> locks 2010-04-21 09:39 AM <DIR> hooks 2010-04-21 09:39...

SVN problems after migration with CVS2SVN

We´ve migrated from CVS on AIX to SVN on Linux via CVS2SVN. The migration seems to have went well but when working in SVN we get a lot of Tree Conflicts that doesn´t seem to be conflicts at all? Looking at the revision graphs, one can see that the graph for e.g. trunk and a branch isn´t the same, i.e. they contain different sets of revi...

Missing files on branch after cvs2svn import

A colleague has imported a CVS repository into a pre-existing SVN repository using a cvs2svn dumpfile (like "svnadmin load --parent-dir /path < dumpfile") , which I originally created from the CVS repo. Now that I'm trying to checkout and build from SVN, I've noticed that some files seem to be missing in the SVN checkout that were prese...

Where does respository resides in after converting CVS repository into SVN using cvs2svn ?

I am using cvs2svn for converting already existing CVS repository into svn repository. While doing it using command line , it makes all the passes and creates a repository in the SVN. But i am not able to find all the files in the particular directory. Where does that repository resides? I used following command to convert the CVS to S...

I am getting following error while converting the CVS repository to SVN repository using cvs2svn

Hi, I am getting this error while while giving this command: cvs2svn --trunkonly --svnrepo /path/to/new/svn /path/to/existed/cvs/repo The error i am getting is Error summary: ERROR: No RCS files found Are you absolutely certain you are pointing cvs2svn at a CVS repository? I found that the my repository is CVSNT. so ...

Getting information about the CVS server from CVS checkout files.

I have CVS checkout files. I am trying to migrate into SVN repository keeping the history of CVS.How can I get the information for its migration from the CVS checkout files so that i can keep track of CVS repository? ...

Is it possible to restrict branching and tagging in CVS at the server?

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 prese...

CVS comma-v files in Attic and directory

I have a production CVS repository that is a number of years old and have noticed that it has comma-v files with the same name in both Attic and in the actual directory for a given location. This appears to be an error. My question is how can this occur in the first place and what will CVS do when duplicate files exist. My guess (hope)...

Can I migrate single file from CVS to SVN?

There is a file sitting in CVS repository of a project now, which needs to be moved to another project using SVN. And I want to keep the history of the commits. Is there a way to do so? ...

Converting many CVS modules into a single SVN repository

I have a rather large CVS repository that I am looking to only convert a handful of modules into a single Subversion repository. I have been correctly guided to using cvs2svn for the conversion and have even gotten as far as building my own options file. I do not need to retain tags or branches, but I would like to retain the revision hi...

Previous svn log is not displayed

Hi all, Firstly, I have migrated my CVS repository into SVN repository. I checked out this whole SVN repository and make some changes like rearranging the directories into branches and tags. The I imported it into the new SVN repository. I am using following command to import .. svn import svn+ssh://host/address/path to repository -m...

Re-importing from CVS into Subversion

The problem I'm trying to solve is not dissimilar to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3762124/subversion-out-of-sync-with-production-code-easiest-way-to-update-subversion but somewhat different. I converted a (Java) project from CVS to SVN (using cvs2svn, retaining full history) - say at version 1.00 Development on version 2.00 conti...