I don't know whether anybody has done this before, but I just tried to run cvs2svn on the Python repository. The conversion took 7 hours, and the result is now available at
http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/python/branches/
Because of the load that the conversion produces on the machine, I cannot run the entire conversion every day. Reportedly, cvs2svn is able to run in incremental mode, but I haven't tried this out yet.
On close inspection, you might notice a few things: - A few branches/tags are missing, namely r16b1|cnri-16-start|descr-branch|release152p1-patches|after-c all-reorg|r22a1|before-call-reorg|release16|r161|r161-branch|r16a2|release152p2 I had to manually exclude these tags, because cvs2svn complained that they (some of them) are tags on some files, and branches on other files. When I excluded these, it then complained that some other tags depend on the excluded ones, so I had to exclude these as well. I suspect that this can be fixed by modifying the CVS repository before the conversion, typically by converting the version tags to branch tags. cvs2svn did not report what files specifically caused the problems, and I don't know the proper cvs/rcs incantation to fix these. So if anybody has done that before, or knows how to, please let me know. - A few tags are useless, most notably the "vendor" branches. I think they should be excluded in the conversion. I don't know where the "unlabeled" branches come from, but they appear to be useless as well. - It has imported the CVSROOT directory as well. I don't know whether this is deliberate/useful.
Anyway, this repository is now online for anonymous read-only access. Anybody interested in playing with it is welcome to do so.
For those interested in server side issues: the repository is an 1.1.1 fsfs repository. The CVS repository consumes 368MiB; the SVN repository 797MiB.
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