Re: Too many trunks

On 07/29/2016 12:18 PM, Kerry, Richard wrote:
> I am seeking to insert some folders, extracted from a CVS
> repository, into a Subversion repository.  As such there are
> trunk/branches/tags folders already in existence, and I need to insert
> the extracted/converted folders at a specific place in the existing
> structure.  I don't seem to be able to do this at the moment.  I think I
> will need to be able to request cvs2svn to handle names in a particular
> way, and I'm not sure how, or even if it is possible.
> 
> In the CVS repository I have the following structure:
> 
> <cvsrepo>/Drivers/Device/App1/<files>
> 
> The Subversion repository has the following structure:
> 
> <svnrepo>/Drivers/trunk/Device/App1/<files>
> 
> (with branches and tags in the corresponding places)

It's not so clear what you want because in your example you have only
mentioned a single project. I assume that you have other projects. Do
you want to place them like this

    <svnrepo>/Drivers/trunk/Device/App1/<files>
    <svnrepo>/Drivers/trunk/Device/App2/<files>

? Or maybe

    <svnrepo>/Drivers/trunk/Device/App1/<files>
    <svnrepo>/Media/trunk/Device/App3/<files>
    <svnrepo>/Storage/trunk/Device/App4/<files>

Does the Subversion repository already exist and have content in it?

Normally life is easiest and the results are best if you convert all
projects at once, into a brand new Subversion repository.

If you want the first kind of layout, then the easiest is to rearrange a
copy of the CVS repository *before* the conversion, placing the
directories like so:

    <cvsrepo>/Drivers/Device/App1/<files>
    <cvsrepo>/Drivers/Device/App2/<files>

Then ask cvs2svn to convert the input path `<cvsrepo>/Drivers`, using
the following options

    --trunk=Drivers/trunk
    --branches=Drivers/branches
    --tags=Drivers/tags

For the second kind of layout you should do a "multiproject conversion",
described here:

    http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html#onetoone

But if you already have content in your Subversion repository (for example,

    <svnrepo>/Drivers/trunk/Device/App0/<files>
    <svnrepo>/Drivers/branches/<branch>/Device/App0/<files>
    <svnrepo>/Drivers/tags/<tag>/Device/App0/<files>

), then it is going to be very hard (i.e., nearly impossible) to
insinuate the new content into the existing content. The branches and
tags in particular will be a mess because they probably differ among
projects.

Michael

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