On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 08:16:21AM -0500, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:54:51 -0500, Bo Berglund
> <bo.berglund_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >But now I have to deal with 6 different CVSROOT directories too...
> >Is cvs2svn using the CVSROOT directory during conversion or can they
> >be removed from the source so as not confusing the operation?
> >Or do I need to use the cvsnt cvs.exe during conversion and does that
> >in such a case need these admin files in CVSROOT?
>
> I found a post on the net stating that CVSROOT directory *is*
> necessary but that cvs2svn does not use any info therein during
> conversion.
> See:
> http://tigris-scm.10930.n7.nabble.com/Is-CVSROOT-dir-mandatory-when-using-cvs2svn-td57397.html
>
> However, I believe that I need to use the flag --use-cvs in order to
> parse the CVSNT repository properly and this might mean that cvs
> itself will use CVSROOT for something.
> And then I have the problem of stuffing projects from the 6 different
> repositories into SVN: Which CVSROOT should be used during conversion?
> Or can all of them be there at the same time?
In this case, an initial cvs2svn conversion which creates 6 distinct
SVN repositories might be easier.
Note that you could later on merge these repositories with SVN tooling:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.migrate
> CVSNT specific stuff:
> ---------------------
> I realized that I have used one CVSNT specific item and this is the
> keyword -kbx, which means that some binary files have been marked as
> binary with the exclusive editing flag. Typically this involves
> Microsoft Office documents and PDF:s, which we did not want any two
> persons simultaneously editing since they could not be merged.
The SVN feature corresponding to this is the svn:needs-lock property.
See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.locking.html
> Can cvs2svn deal with the -kbx keyword, for example by treating it as
> -kb?
> Or will these files be in any way corrupted by the conversion?
Subversion does not need any special options for binaries.
Keywords in files have to be explicitly configured on a per-file basis:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.special.keywords.html
File content is never modified by default -- what goes in comes back out.
So I expect this problem will turn out to be irrelevant.
Received on 2017-11-14 14:30:15 CET