Re: unable to convert CVSNT to SVN

On 04/04/2012 04:24 PM, vinodh wrote:
> We are using CVSNT in windows 2003, we have decided to go for linux box
> and convert our cvsnt repo into svn repo. We did the following,
> 
> a) In windows 2003 we used 7zip to zip our repo and moved to our linux box
> b) In linux we untar the repo and used the below methods to convert,
> 
> 1 cvs2svn --fallback-encoding=UTF-8 --svnrepos testrepo /cvsroot/cvsrepo
> 2 cvs2svn --fallback-encoding=UTF-8 --default-eol=native
> --dumpfile=/opt/testrepo /mnt/cvsroot/cvsrepo
> 3 cvs2svn --fallback-encoding=UTF-8 --auto-props=/srv/autoprops
> --svnrepos testrepo  /mnt/cvsroot/cvsrepo
> 4 cvs2svn --fallback-encoding=UTF-8 --mime-types=/etc/mime.types
> --eol-from-mime-type --no-default-eol --svnrepos testrepo /opt/cvsroot
> 
> By using the above methods all the conversion was successful, but we get
> eol error in some files.
> 
> Since this conversion is from windows to linux, we get eol line problem,
> adding to this, initially we tried the (1) method the conversion was
> successful but some files like
> jar, image and zip are corrupted. So we tried all other steps (2,3,4)
> but this too seems to be not working.

Please note that CVSNT repositories are not officially supported by
cvs2svn.  That being said, many people have reported successfully
converting CVSNT repositories using cvs2svn.

Please be sure to follow the recommendations in the FAQ [1].  In
particular, remember that you should use the --use-cvs option and ensure
that the "cvs" program that is used for the conversion is the executable
that comes with CVSNT, *not* standard CVS.  AFAIK cvsnt is available
under Linux so that should not be a show-stopper.

I also recommend checking the problematic files out of the repository
using cvs under Windows and Linux to make sure that *they* work.  If
there is a problem on one platform or the other, get that fixed (e.g.,
by marking the files as binary in CVS) before the conversion.

Michael

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

-- 
Michael Haggerty
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http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/

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