The cvs2svn script (http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/) iterates through all the commits and makes change sets from commits in the same time frame that also have the same commit message. There are a few other migration scripts floating around that do the same thing. The migration scripts don't take server side moves into account, they will show up as 2 files with disconnected history.

— Timothy Hatcher


On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:36 AM, David D. Kilzer wrote:

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:

Mac OS X Subversion Client Packages:

-eric



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