>
> One thing that I noticed is size of the root repository when I was done
> with each (oh I did the 2 methods on separate systems). Here is what I
> found:
>
> initial cvs repo - 20 MB
> method 1 svn repo - 25 MB
> method 2 svn repo - 176 MB
is that realy true?
does anyother best practices exist over there?
-Arash
Patrick Nelson <pnelson@neatech.com> wrote on 09.10.2004 23:45:12:
> FC2 with svn 1.0.8
>
> So I tried 3 ways to convert cvs repo to a svn repo, this is what I
found:
>
> The facts
> cvs repo - /var/repo/cvs/dev
> svn repo - /var/repo/svn/dev
>
> The methods
> 1. Treat cvs as a single repository and convert it to a single svn
> repository with:
>
> cvs2svn -s <svn repo> <cvs repo>
>
> 2. Break up the cvs repositories and convert them into app repositories
> in svn with:
>
> Modules="<list of modules>"
> for Module in $Modules; do
> cvs2svn -s <svn repo>/$Module <cvs repo>/$Module
> done
>
> The second method was much more complicated than that but I wanted to
> get just the understanding of it down not the specifics. Both methods
> work just fine, but the second seems to keep my apps separated better so
> that I can admin them in different ways. Cool. My scripts to do
> method 2 were complicated but it did produce the end result that I think
> I wanted. However....
>
> One thing that I noticed is size of the root repository when I was done
> with each (oh I did the 2 methods on separate systems). Here is what I
> found:
>
> initial cvs repo - 20 MB
> method 1 svn repo - 25 MB
> method 2 svn repo - 176 MB
>
> This surprised me because I thought it would be close to the same. Not
> close to 9 times greater than the size of the cvs repo. Did I do
> something wrong or is this just the overhead that separate svn repos
have?
>
>
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