FW: (Newbie) Problems using "cvs2svn" on Windows, with a CVSNT repository

Nobody seems to use the "cvs2svn" list, so I'll repost here...

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Brown [mailto:christopher@calligrafix.com]
Sent: 12 March 2004 10:18
To: users@cvs2svn.tigris.org
Subject: (Newbie) Problems using "cvs2svn" on Windows, with a CVSNT
repository

Hello,

I'm having difficulty converting a CVS repository to a Subversion
repository.

I'm using Subversion 1.0.0 on Windows XP. I've checked out the current
version of "cvs2svn". I've installed Python 2.3.2. I've installed (and
added to the path) the Windows version of "RCS", using the link specified in
cvs2svn's "README" file. I can't see what I need to do to work with GNU
"sort", but I don't think I've got that far yet...?

I am trying to convert based on a local filesystem copy of the repository.
The original repository runs with CVSNT. I've put my CVS repository files
in a subfolder of the folder in which I've put "cvs2svn", namely "myrepos",
and would like to create the SVN repository in a subfolder named
"mysvn\proj".

Running the following command then:

C:\cvs2svn>cvs2svn.py --create -s mysvn\proj myrepos

...creates the following output (I've cut out the output from "pass 1" to
"pass 2", but it basically lists all the files in my repository, such as
"myrepos\BUILDING.TXT,v"):

----- pass 1 -----
...
----- pass 2 -----
----- pass 3 -----
----- pass 4 -----
creating repos 'mysvn\proj'
committing: Thu Feb 12 09:35:17 2004, over 1 seconds
    adding or changing 1.1 : 'trunk/BUILDING.TXT'
Error: Command failed: "co -q -p1.1 "myrepos\BUILDING.TXT,v""

I assumed then that maybe I should use a "file:" URL, like this:

C:\cvs2svn>cvs2svn.py --create -s mysvn\proj file:///C:/cvs2svn/myrepos
Error: 'file:///C:/cvs2svn/myrepos' does not exist.

As you can see, it didn't like it (I did clean out the "stub" SVN repository
that the Python script had created, and also removed all other files created
in the current directory by it). Should I try to setup a local "pserver",
would that help?

Or is the problem elsewhere?

Or am I just wasting my time trying this on Windows (is it not possible)?

If the answer to the last question is "yes", am I likely to be totally
stuck, given that the original repository is on a Windows filesystem, and
that this might well screw up will EOL stuff if I copy as-is onto a
Linux/Unix machine (I don't have one to hand unfortunately...)?

Thanks in advance for your help!

- Chris

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Received on Fri Mar 12 14:52:50 2004