Re: cvs2svn not renaming files

On 08/16/2013 07:22 PM, Lucas wrote:
> Hi, I used cvs2svn to convert a project using the following command line:
> 
> python c:\cvs2svn-2.4.0\cvs2svn --encoding=latin_1 --use-cvs --dumpfile
> csx_csc_shared.dump d:\cvs\cvs_root\csx_csc_shared
> 
> where d:\cvs\cvs_root is the path of my repository.
> 
> The problem is that a file is renamed along the revisions:
> [...]
> 
> But in the converted repository, the file is not renamed anywhere, as
> shown in the attached picture.
> Is there a way to configure cvs2svn to rename files as they are in cvs?
> I have a really huge repository with hundreds of projects, and I can not
> seek renaming manually.

File renaming is a CVSNT feature that is not in standard CVS, and thus
cvs2svn does not support it.  Detecting renames could undoubtedly be
implemented, but since CVSNT users by and large don't give back to the
community, the ability to convert CVSNT-specific features has languished.

Ironically, if you were converting to Git it wouldn't matter because Git
doesn't record renames in the history but rather detects them on-the-fly
at runtime.

By the way OH. MY. GOD.  Does CVSNT really spray advertisements into
your commit messages if you use the free version!?!?!  That is beyond
evil.  It would be pretty easy to teach cvs2svn to strip that crap out
during the conversion, or (since Subversion log messages are mutable)
you could delete it from the commit messages after the conversion to
Subversion.

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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