Re: segregated conversions

On 06/21/2014 08:18 AM, Ivan wrote:
> I read the descriptions of the tool, and I have an interpretation that I
> need to ask.
> 
> If a cvs repository, has, maybe 10 projects in it.  If you then create
> 10 dumpfiles, one of each project.
> 
> If you try to import the 10 dumpfiles separately, into the new svn
> repository, then I get the feeling that each project
> would be under a different commit-revision number. 
> Therefore, if projects 2,4, and 7 are dependent on each other and have
> original cvs-tags common to them,
>  then their new home in the svn repository would be out of sync with
> each other.
> 
> Did I interpret that correctly ?
> 
> I'm thinking that project-1 dumpfile could be imported into the new svn
> repository under revision maybe 733, then
> project-2 would be next to be imported, and would maybe imported as
> revision 1506, then project-3, etc...

That is correct.  If you want to avoid this effect, then you should do a
multiproject conversion [1].

Michael

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

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