Thanks everyone for the feedback and the advice. Much appreciated!
Regards,
Mark
David Weintraub wrote:
>
> cvs2svn does a good job at importing tags and branches. You specify in
> the configuration file or on the command line how to setup the
> branches and tags, and cvs2svn follows it well.
>
> In fact, what we did was remove lots of the old tags than no longer
> made sense. I wrote a Perl script to go through the CVS files removing
> these tags. Then, we did the conversion.
>
> What you might want to do is have cvs2svn throw the CVS tags in a
> directory like tags/CVS instead of just tags, and then copy over the
> tags that you want to keep to the tags directory itself. That way, the
> tags directory isn't filled with thousands of tags that mean nothing
> to the developers.
>
> We should have done that. That would have been easier than
> manipulating the CVS files in the first place.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Mark-E <meramo_at_hbs.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone for their replies. I do have another question
>> concerning
>> cvs2svn.
>>
>> We have a lot of tags and branches in our CVS repository and I was
>> wondering
>> when using the cvs2svn script if it will import tags and branches
>> properly.
>>
>> For example, I want to setup the repository in the defaults format of
>>
>> project foo
>> - trunk
>> - branches
>> - tags
>>
>> When I export a project from CVS that has say 10 tags, I would hope that
>> the
>> cvs2svn script will see each tag and build them out properly in the tags
>> folder.
>>
>> Can anyone provide we with some real life details on how this might have
>> worked for them. Thanks!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> We do this, no problem at all.
>>
>> Geir
>>
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