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Converting from CVS to Subversion with cvs2svn (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted October 4, 2005 by ris]

O'ReillyNet covers CVS to Subversion conversion with cvs2svn. "Before you start converting, you may need to do a little housekeeping on your CVS repository. First and foremost, make a copy of your CVS repository and work only with the copy--I can't stress this enough. A lot of the cleanup work we're going to do here can be done after you've converted, but I prefer to do the work before converting as it makes for a "cleaner" Subversion repository."

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Posted Oct 4, 2005 20:06 UTC (Tue) by dvrabel (subscriber, #9500) [Link]

The article doesn't discuss the two types of repository formats (Berkley DB and FSFS). Refer to the Subversion book for details. I always use FSFS, FWIW.

Converting from CVS to Subversion with cvs2svn (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Oct 5, 2005 13:33 UTC (Wed) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]

If cvs2svn doesn't work, try tailor instead:

http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor

As you can see from that page, tailor also supports nine other revision control systems, besides CVS and SVN.