On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:48:20PM +0100, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On Tue 2002-10-29 at 16:08:42 -0500, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> > Alain Mellan wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I was reading the documents and book about SVN, because I'm considering
> > >switching to SVN from CVS. I haven't seen anywhere the mention of a
> > >migration path for a CVS repository. Surely, if you guys want to replace
> > >CVS, you thought about it, right?
> > >
> > >Now that I think of it, it might not be as easy as it seem, if we want
> > >to preserve the whole history, tags, etc.
> > >
> > >What are your plans?
> >
> > check out cvs2svn.py in tools/cvs2svn.
>
> But part of the original point still stands: There seems to be no
> obvious hint in the documentation on how to migrate from CVS. I
> remember that when I started evaluating svn (r2847, IIRC), I already
> had compiled it and poked around with the code, but still did not knew
> how to convert from CVS. I learned it some week later, when cvs2svn
> was mentioned on this list.
>
> Ignore me, if I am simply out of date or missed the obvious and this
> is already documented (but then, where?).
>
> Else, maybe there should be some information in the README or on the
> web site?
>
I think the reason that there isn't such documentation right now is because
the script isn't complete, and we're still working on making the bindings
easier to build. Even still though, maybe there should be a pointer to
cvs2svn, just with a big warning on it.
What do others think?
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