Re: Can I exclude specific files from the conversion

Michael Haggerty <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.cvs2svn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Esmeraldo, Michael wrote:
>   I have a CVS repository from a company that was purchased & I am using
> cvs2svn to create an svn dump file so that I can import pertinent
> aspects of the CVs repository into our svn repository.  The problem is
> that we utilize our svn repository as source code only, i.e. there are
> no binary files ( .exe, .doc, ect  We have a separate artifact &
> document repositories for these) in our repository.  Unfortunately, this
> is not the case in the CVS repository.  I would like to know if there is
> a way I can exclude file types from the conversion.  Can I for example
> exclude *.exe or *.doc files from the conversion?

There is no built-in way to exclude particular files (though it wouldn't
be difficult to add).

Currently, the standard approach is to make a copy of the CVS
repository, and in the copy delete the *,v files corresponding to the
files that you don't want converted.  Then convert from the copy.

Michael

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