[webkit-dev] Subversion Migration

[Timothy Hatcher]

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
>>
>> --
>> Joost de Valk
>>
>> #:    AlthA on #webkit @ irc.freenode.net
>> @:    webkit at joostdevalk.nl
>> W:    http://www.joostdevalk.nl
>>
>> "The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the
>> fault finders." - Foster's Law
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>
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