[webkit-dev] Subversion Migration

[Colin Barrett]

Be careful when using cvs2svn. We got burned by it when it inserted a  
filename containing DEL near the beginning of the repo. The main  
problem with it is that it doesn't go through svn's regular input  
checking, it feeds the repo directly.

-Colin
www.adiumx.com

On Dec 6, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Timothy Hatcher wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> webkit-dev mailing list
>> webkit-dev at opendarwin.org
>> http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
>
> _______________________________________________
> webkit-dev mailing list
> webkit-dev at opendarwin.org
> http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev