On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 13:07 -0400, Patrick Burleson wrote:
> On 8/18/05, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes. The tool is called cvs2svn. You can read about it in the book
> > here:
> >
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/apas11.html
> >
> > For one example, on my Debian machine it may be installed with the
> > following command:
> >
> > apt-get install cvs2svn
> >
> > Then used like this:
> >
> > cvs2svn --fs-type=fsfs -s /path/to/new-svn-repos /path/to/old-cvs-repos
> >
>
>
> Unfortunately that's not what's being asked for. That would convert a
> CVS repository to a SVN one.
>
> As for converting a working copy, I don't know of any tool that does
> that. The CVS and SVN working copy formats are very different. I don't
> think it would be wise to try and convert them.
>
> Is there a reason, other than not wanting to do it, to not just
> recheckout? It should be a fairly starightforward process and you'll
> only have to do it once. Whereas some conversion tool might mess up
> and force you to do it over and over and over.
In addition, unless he actually converts his CVS repository to
an SVN one, what good does it do to have a SVN working copy?
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Received on Thu Aug 18 19:51:50 2005