Re: Problem with CollateSymbolsPass conversion from CSRCS to CVS to SVN

Thanks for the suggestion and explanation Michael.  That seemed to have worked.  I had suspected the problem had to do with svn's confusion on tags.  The conversion command ran to completion after more than 6 hours of processing.  On that end, I was wondering, where exactly does svn look in the cvs repository to retrieve information regarding various tags to create.  I noticed from a simpler conversion that milestones from our CSRCS project translate to tags on the svn repository.  However, in this larger conversion, it is not obvious where the tags came from as some of the milestone names are not quite the same as what is shown on SVN, and SVN also seems to have additional tags that I do not see on the CSRCS document repository viewer...  so, i was wondering where exactly it retrieves the information for creating the tags if there is a particular file, folder, etc.  thanks again.



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From: Michael Haggerty <[email protected]>
To: lee <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: Problem with CollateSymbolsPass conversion from CSRCS to CVS to SVN

On 10/06/2011 01:26 AM, lee wrote:
> Next I run the following command to determine what I can see in
> regards to the tags mentioned in the error, and see the following:
> 0     microphone/volume_adjust       tag        tags/microphone/volume_adjust .trunk.
>       # 'microphone/volume_adjust' is a tag in 9 files, a branch in 0 files, a trivial import in 0 files, a pure import in 0 files, and has commits in 0 files
> [...]
> 0     microphone                     tag        tags/microphone .trunk.
>       # 'microphone' is a tag in 7 files, a branch in 0 files, a trivial import in 0 files, a pure import in 0 files, and has commits in 0 files

There are two RCS/CVS tags, "microphone/volume_adjust" and "microphone".
Since Subversion represents tags and paths in the same namespace, these
two tags will overlap when converted to Subversion.  For example, if
your project has a file "README.txt" in it, then in subversion you would
end up with the following nonsensical organization:

    $URL/tags/microphone/
    $URL/tags/microphone/README.txt
    $URL/tags/microphone/volume_adjust/
    $URL/tags/microphone/volume_adjust/README.txt

Do you see how the root directory of one tag is mixed up with the file
contents of the other tag?

You need to tell cvs2svn to put one of the tags elsewhere, which you can
do by editing the symbol-info file and using it as a symbol-hints file.
For example, you could change the first line from above to read:

> 0 microphone/volume_adjust tag tags/microphone-volume_adjust .trunk.

(notice how I changed the "/" to a "-") then the conversion should be
able to proceed.

Michael

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