Re: CVS2SVN --force-branch not working.

Please include the information suggested in the FAQ entry "How do I
report a bug?" [1].

On 02/24/2011 04:38 AM, Anzo wrote:
> I'm badly in need of help.I was struggling since 4 weeks no luck though .
> 
> I've a copy of the CVS(6 GB) repository which has been taken from one our
> UNIX MACHINE  to windows 2003 server.I'm trying to migrate the code to SVN.
> Below are the commands which i've used on windows.
> 
> 1)  C:\Python27\python cvs2svn    --force-branch=”triod_one_1.2” 
> --force-branch="crome_eight" --exclude=".*" --svnrepos=E:\code\test1  
> E:\code\CVS   --sort="H:\UnxUtils\usr\local\wbin\sort.exe" 
> --encoding="ISO-8859-15"  
> 
> Result  of the above command: It has passed all the passes and it has
> converted only trunk even though i've not passed --trunk-only flag.

The --exclude=".*" option tells cvs2svn to discard all tags and
branches, so the only branches that you should expect in the output are
the ones that you listed explicitly: "triod_one_1.2" and "crome_eight".
 Since CVS doesn't allow branches to contain periods, the former branch
looks very suspect.  Perhaps neither one matches the names of branches
that actually exist in your CVS repository?

I suggest running with --write-symbol-info=FILENAME to see what symbol
names cvs2svn actually found in your repo.

> 2)Also we've too many unlabeled branches, so i decided to remove all
> first.So i have used below command
> C:\Python27\python cvs2svn    --exclude=”unlabeled.*”  
> --svnrepos=E:\code\test1  E:\code\CVS  
> --sort="H:\UnxUtils\usr\local\wbin\sort.exe"  --encoding="ISO-8859-15" 
> 
> It didn't work. It has just converted all the code TO SVN repo including the
> unlabeled.I've used exclude in below ways as well.
> --exclude="unlabeled.\*"
> --exclude="unlabeled-.*"
> --exclude="unlabeled.*"

I don't actually know how command-line quoting works on Windows, but if
you can get the option "--exclude=unlabeled.*" through to cvs2svn, then
it should work correctly.

> Actually, we've around 9000(branches,tags,trunk) out of which i required to
> convert around 4000 branches,tags,trunk.Kindly help on this.

You might want to use --write-symbol-info and --symbol-hints to manage
this large number of symbols.

Michael

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

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Michael Haggerty
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