[GRASS-dev] CVS 2 SVN migration

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Dienstag, 14. August 2007, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Stephan Holl-3 wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 14. August 2007 03:02 schrieb Hamish:
> >> Markus Neteler wrote:
> >> > Still we have to figure out the flags of the cvs2svn conversion
> >> > script.
> >>
> >> one problem I have seen before in CVS->SVN is binaries (ie image.gif)
> >> get corrupted if not -kb flagged in CVS. IIRC Glynn bulk corrected this
> >> some months ago, so hopefully that part will be smooth.
> >>
> >>
> >> I agree with Helena about avoiding double-handling. It's better to do
> >> the migration once, correctly.
> >>
> >> Is there anything the community can do to help getting the freegis.org
> >> server ready for SVN? CVS access & uptime from intevation.de has been
> >> excellent IMO.
> > 
> > Thanks. Actually our infrastructiure has SVN ready to start over. See on 
> > wald[1], there is already a GRASS-project where the trackers are running.
> > 
> > Is that what you expect?!
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > 	Stephan
> > 
> > [1] http://wald.intevation.org
> > 
> 
> I don't know from the indicated wald page. What we need is that the CVS2SVN 
> migration is launched on the CVS server and stuff migrated to SVN including
> code
> history. It was communicated by Bernhard that there is no time for that in
> the near
> future.

how long ago was that? ;-)

> But we should no longer wait, otherwise some developers may go away.
> Since OSGeo is offering SVN infrastructure to the OSGeo projects, this could
> be an alternative then.

once there is a SVN repository, it could easily be integrated into Wald or any
other SVN infrastructure.

This first step (cvs2svn) needs to be done anyway and this is the one that
consumes time.

It is good that the binary problems are fixed meanwhile, I didn't notice this
change.

IIUC, we just need to define a time for commit stop and then take a snapshot of the
CVS repository, apply cvs2svn to it (find out about apropriate parameters, I have
done this task a couple of times), check the result and put it into the development
platforms' SVN place.

Best

	Jan

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