Re: cvs2svn conversion....

Meghraj Bilwani wrote:
>         Just need to clarify the requirements for the cvs2svn utility.
> We have a production installation of CVS on a Linux that we need to
> convert to SVN. We created a sandbox enviroment on AIX to do the
> conversion. I have noticed in the requirements that we need direct
> access to the CVS repository to convert. Following are the questions
> that I have:
> 
> Question 1. Does it mean we need the CVS server installed on the AIX
> machine along with the source folders?
> 
> OR
> 
> Question 2. I can just tar the CVS source folder and take it the AIX box
> and use that for conversion. The cvs metadata folders contain enough
> information to help with the conversion.

It is enough to have a copy of the CVS repository (but not just a
checked-out CVS working copy!) on the conversion machine.  That means
the folders with lots of files with names that end in ",v".  You also
need a CVSROOT directory, which is part of the repository, but this
directory can be empty.  And of course you need the other things listed
in the cvs2svn requirements [1].

Hope that helps,
Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2svn.html#reqs

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