Actually, I was looking for best practices and lessons learned for converting a CVS repository to a Subversion repository if there was an information that could be shared. Stuff like: 1. Reconnecting history of files that were deleted and added in the "same" commit. 2. Handling *.,v files that have been copied from the server side (instead of deleting and adding them as in #1). I've used Subversion at work recently. It does take some getting used to (some concepts like branching are implemented much differently and yet much more simply), but overall I like it a lot better than CVS. It really does fix a lot of the warts that CVS has. Dave On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:47:42AM +0100, Joost de Valk wrote:
Can't answer 1 for you, 2 though: my experience is that switching from CVS to SVN is actually very easy. The branching stuff is different, but you probably won't use that, in general it's just replacing "cvs" by "svn" in your favourite command and it works :).
Kind regards, Joost
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On Dec 5, 2005, at 11:56 PM, David D. Kilzer wrote:
1. Apple won't be providing their own build of a Subversion client for Tiger, not even to developers?
2. Are there any best practices, lessons learned or perhaps a white paper that you can share about the CVS to Subversion conversion process?
Dave
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:08:15PM -0800, Eric Seidel wrote:
Hi all-
This weekend we will be migrating our source repository from using CVS to Subversion. This migration will take place starting Friday evening at 5PM and continue through Saturday. More details will follow.
After the migration is complete, in order to check out the WebKit sources you will be required to have a Subversion client on your machine. Since we know you'll all be anxious to checkout the sources once complete, this is an early reminder to start downloading your subversion client. :)
Subversion Manual: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
Mac OS X Subversion Client Packages: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/mbo/ http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html
-eric