Re: cvs2svn migration: making cvs branch as svn trunk while migration

Hello Michael,

Thank you very much for your reply.

1) we created the branch from a tag. But in cvsweb it shows the history from
file creation. will this be problem for what we are trying to do?. if so,
can exclude the tag that is the source of the branch?
2) with the option you have specified, will the below command create the
dump file.
 cvs2svn --fallback-encoding=ascii --write-symbol-info=/opt/inf.txt
--symbol-hints=/opt/hints.txt
--exclude='^(test-email-core-br|trunk)' --force-branch=build-ready
 --dumpfile emailcore.svndump email
is the exclude regex correct to exclude all tags and branches except trunk
and my branch?

want to get your opinion on the above command before trying it as it is
taking 7 to 8 hours to create the file and few hours to export to svn.

Thanks in advance
Ravi

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Michael Haggerty <[email protected]>wrote:

> ravi wrote:
> > Right now we release based on branch and our cvs head needs lot of clean
> > up to make it look like production. so we wanted to migrate to svn and
> > make the current release branch as trunk on svn and do not need to
> > migrate any other tags, branches.
>
> There is no way to exclude trunk.  Every branch sprouts from trunk.
> Therefore if trunk were excluded, part of the branch history would not
> be available.  (I suppose that this could be changed by pretending that
> the "trunk" part of the branch history were actually on the branch, but
> this is not implemented in cvs2svn and would be a bit of work.)
>
> What you can do is to have the branch written to an SVN path called
> "trunk" and trunk written to some other SVN path.  All other branches
> and tags could be excluded (as long as the branch you want always
> sprouts from trunk).
>
> This is most easily done via a symbol-hints file.  See the
> --write-symbol-info and --symbol-hints options for more information.
>
> Michael
>



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- Ravi MAV

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