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Re: CVS pserver emulation for SVN?

From: Jeremy Wilkins <jeremy_at_ibexinternet.co.uk>
Date: 2007-05-25 14:03:44 CEST

Git has a well known pserver implementation, I'd guess this is in
either C or perl though. Bazaar NG also has one, written in python,
which might be a better starting point.

http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrPlugins - under the Interop with other
version control section

bye

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On 25 May 2007, at 11:08, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> Is there something that emulates the CVS pserver protocol on top of
> subversion? I've googled for it but found nothing so far.
>
> I'm involved in a project where the goal is a CVS to SVN migration  
> for a
> client. The current goal is a complete migration, not a cut-off where
> some parts later live in an old CVS repo and the rest is converted to
> SVN. We believe that having multiple sources of version-controlled
> information is a path to madness :-)
> We have identified the following obstacles:
> - There are old build-scripts that rely on CVS. These live on old
>   branches in CVS. But it *could* occur that bug-fixes are  
> necessary on
>   such an old branch. Rather than modifying the build-environment,
>   emulating cvs would be an easier solution.
> - There are third-party tools in use that currently only support cvs.
>
> So we are thinking about writing such an emulation if nothing exists.
> Shouldn't be too complex if we're using subversions python interface?
>
> But I can't believe nobody has thought about that before us...
>
> Ralf
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