As CVS just uses plain files as its repos, you can merge the CVS
repositories together before you run cvs2svn -- just create a new CVS repos,
and just copy your existing CVS repositories into this directory. You can
then run a single cvs2svn call on the whole thing.
Hope this helps,
Andrew
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Baeriswyl Kuno - Extern (IT-BA-MV)
<kuno.baeriswyl_at_sbb.ch> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> What is the shortest way to migrate a cvs repos to svn and merge them into
> a single subversion repository?
>
> We got more thant 20 cvs repos. The way I've found is following:
>
>
> 1. cvs2svn for all cvs repos
> 2. dump all migrates repos
> 3. merge all dumps into a single file using svndumptool
> 4. create new svn repo and load the dumpfile
>
> This working well, though, loading the dumpfile is very timeconsuming task.
> Is there a way to shortcut the process above without loosing version
> history?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kuno
>
>
>
--
Andrew
Received on 2008-08-11 11:01:44 CEST