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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users CVS: move part of repository (branch) to SVN server Post 302213159 by +Yan on Wednesday 9th of July 2008 10:54:43 AM
Old 07-09-2008
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Originally Posted by cbkihong
However, if I have not misinterpreted the documentation for cvs2svn, that does not appear to have an option for migrating a CVS branch only. My understanding is in CVS, unlike in SVN that a branch is a copy and just works like the trunk except on a separate tree, CVS branches are rooted with a revision on the parent branch and it will not be very surprising to me if indeed cvs2svn does not support migrating a branch only directly.

Correct me if I am wrong.

I guess the original poster already knows about cvs2svn because that is mostly the way to convert a CVS repo to SVN ....
Yes I do know about cvs2svn.

First of all it turns out that the person which requires the SVN conversion is marketing director. So we reviewed what he NEEDS exacty and ...

We solved the problem in not very sciantific way ...
Here is how:
1. I copied one part of the things that we need to cvsroot/tmp/svn directory
then used simple bash script with cp and cvs rtag commands to delete all unnecessery branches and tags .. (I got the branches / tags from cvsweb interface)
2. copied second part, and repeated 1, then tirth part ... and so on ...

3. After long time of copy / cvs rtag -d (allmost 24h ).... we had one not very big (approx. 1G) repository in cvsroot/tmp/svn.
This repository was compressed, and sent to my colege, for SVN transformation on remote server.

My personal conclusion:
Before proceed, make sure you know that the person that wants huge changes to well working (and proven) system knows what he / she wants Smilie)

Cheers.
 

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SVNPATH(1)                                                                                                                              SVNPATH(1)

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svnpath - output svn url with support for tags and branches SYNOPSIS
svnpath svnpath tags svnpath branches svnpath trunk DESCRIPTION
svnpath is intended to be run in a Subversion working copy. In its simplest usage, svnpath with no parameters outputs the svn url for the repository associated with the working copy. If a parameter is given, svnpath attempts to instead output the url that would be used for the tags, branches, or trunk. This will only work if it's run in the top-level directory that is subject to tagging or branching. For example, if you want to tag what's checked into Subversion as version 1.0, you could use a command like this: svn cp $(svnpath) $(svnpath tags)/1.0 That's much easier than using svn info to look up the repository url and manually modifying it to derive the url to use for the tag, and typing in something like this: svn cp svn+ssh://my.server.example/svn/project/trunk svn+ssh://my.server.example/svn/project/tags/1.0 svnpath uses a simple heuristic to convert between the trunk, tags, and branches paths. It replaces the first occurrence of trunk, tags, or branches with the name of what you're looking for. This will work ok for most typical Subversion repository layouts. If you have an atypical layout and it does not work, you can add a ~/.svnpath file. This file is perl code, which can modify the path in $url. For example, the author uses this file: #!/usr/bin/perl # svnpath personal override file # For d-i I sometimes work from a full d-i tree branch. Remove that from # the path to get regular tags or branches directories. $url=~s!d-i/(rc|beta)[0-9]+/!!; $url=~s!d-i/sarge/!!; 1 LICENSE
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