On 2006-11-29 13:08+0100 Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi, > >>> Aside, I guess that now that we've lost Rafael we won't be switching >>> over to Subversion? >> >> ... If somebody >> is interested in using the conversion tool to convert our CVS repository >> to >> subversion, and then testing the result to see how well it could reproduce >> our complete CVS ChangeLog and some of our historical releases (essential >> tests that the history in our CVS was converted properly), that would >> be great. > > I was already looking into this, since I think at some point we have to > switch to svn, and it actually is not a very hard thing to do (run a script > cvs2svn), but somehow I though sourceforge has some information how to that, > and I didn't find anything (I didn't look very hard, I admit). I could try to > dig further, if nobody else wants to do it.
That would be great. The conversion should be easy, the testing is the hard part. To help you with that, apparently there is a tool called svn2cl (http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/svn2cl/). If cvs2cl for the cvs repo and svn2cl for the converted subversion repo give the same commit messages back to the first, that would go a long way toward convincing people that the conversion had been done correctly without losing any of the history. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
