On the Skolelinux gathering in Bergen a couple of weeks ago there was some talk about converting the Skolelinux CVS repository to Subversion <http://subversion.tigris.org>, which brings many new features, for example renaming of files and directories, atomic commits, global revision numbers, versioning of symlinks and properties, etc. I suggested to set up a Subversion repository for testing, and I ran a convertion of the CVS repository as of 2005-06-20 17:16:37 UTC wich resulted in 43395 revisions.
The repository itself, in FSFS¹ format is stored as a .tar.bz2 file at http://tmp.sunbase.org/skolelinux/skolelinux.tar.bz2 if anyone wants to experiment with it at their local machine. Just unpack it and use a Subversion client newer than 1.1 against it. A test installation of the repository is available at http://svn.sunbase.org/repos/skolelinux/trunk/ This repository is only meant for experimenting to let the committers have a look at how it would look like if the repository is converted to Subversion. If commit access is wanted to that repository so you can play around, send a MD5 hash (for example created with "htpasswd -m") to me by email with your wanted username, and I'll set it up in no time. If you don't have htpasswd or anything at hand, you can send the user name and I'll create a random password which is mailed back. Some details about the convertion itself. This is what cvs2svn reported after the convertion was finished: cvs2svn Statistics: ------------------ Total CVS Files: 47902 Total CVS Revisions: 200008 Total Unique Tags: 283 Total Unique Branches: 33 CVS Repos Size in KB: 1752390 Total SVN Commits: 43395 First Revision Date: Sat Jul 14 17:02:52 2001 Last Revision Date: Mon Jun 20 19:16:37 2005 ------------------ Timings: ------------------ pass 1: 973 seconds pass 2: 471 seconds pass 3: 3 seconds pass 4: 385 seconds pass 5: 552 seconds pass 6: 7 seconds pass 7: 14 seconds pass 8: 57026 seconds total: 59435 seconds The machine which where the convertion was done is a 450Mhz Pentium III with Debian stable (version 3.1) and cvs2svn-1.2.x-r1428. The convertion took about 16 hours with a lot of other stuff happening on the machine now and then. du(1) says the size of the Subversion repository is 2.0 gigabytes, and the CVS repository was about 1.8 gigabytes. ¹: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fsfs Regards, Øyvind A. Holm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
