On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:17, Brian McCallister wrote: > On Jun 11, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
> >> 2) How easy is it to migrate an existing CVS repo to subversion? > > > > > > infra has nifty scripts to convert everything including branches and > > history. > > Subversion ships with a cvs2svn script which takes a long time to run, > but does a pretty good conversion job. I've spent the month of May substantially rewriting cvs2svn, and although I'm not done yet, it's already faster--especially on Really Large multi-gigabyte repositories. > We used it on a big, hairy, cvs > repository where I work and it performed flawlessly. Interestingly, it > attempts to atomize commits by assuming anything in a 5 minute window > is one commit. It's not quite that simple...multiple CVS revisions committed in the same 5 minute window *also* with the same author and the same log message are treated as as a single Subversion commit (with a few edge-case exceptions). -Fitz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
