Re: migration from Sloaris to Windows XP to Linux
Michael Haggerty <[email protected]>
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Jesse Driver wrote: > My colleagues and I are looking at options for our migration from CVS > to SVN. We have a Solaris machine hosting CVS now. We need to > > Migrate to a Linux machine. The only machine available to test on is a > Windows XP machine. > > One idea proposed was to copy the CVS repository from Solaris to Windows > XP (file copy), and then use Cygwin tools to execute the cvs2svn command. > > Assuming we have binary and text files will this work from Solaris to > WinXP as a direct file copy cause problems due > platform binary file representations? It should be OK. Just be careful not to use CVSNT on the Windows box, as it is a nonstandard variant of CVS and might behave differently. > Is this a recommended approach? Well, cvs2svn is tested mostly on Linux and Unix, but it should work on Windows too. Michael ------------------------------------------------------ http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1670&dsMessageId=2449049 To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [[email protected]].