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cvs2svn is a tool for migrating a CVS repository to Subversion, git, or Bazaar.

cvs2svn is a tool for migrating a repository to , , or .

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cvs2svn include single branch and head?

I'm using cvs2svn to convert my repository. I've done it with success in one repository, and now my new problem is a second repository. In my new conversion, I want to convert only the HEAD and one branch. cvs2svn only have "exclude" function for…
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source file control cvs to svn conversion?

Hey guys. I currently use cvs to control all my source files but want to move away from cvs to svn. Could anyone give me some pointers? I have loads of projects but they are all similar therefore would like to just have the structure: Trunk. …
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SVN 1.3 VS 1.5 (latest)

Our IT guy has installed SVN 1.3, the current version is 1.5. We are migrating from CVS to SVN, so do I lose much by staying with 1.3? I like to run CVS2SVN and move to SVN without the need of writing any scripts Also: in CVS we have on project…
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Need to convert a project trunk into a branch when using CVS

I'm converting a large, multi-project CVS repository into Subversion using cvs2svn. It's working really nicely, but there are a few CVS projects that really ought to be branches of other projects. Using an options file I'm able to specify that the…
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My repository access died when I used CVS2SVN?

I had a problem running CVS2SVN on my server. I have run it successfully before but I got a sort error in pass 5 so this time I added a sort option that pointed to a sort program on my system. (sort="C:/cygwin/bin/sort.exe"). It worked great and…
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CVS to Subversion Conversion: Diskspace Issue

Our current CVS repository has 42Gb of space. Truthfully, we'll probably not convert a lot of the stuff in there. However, let's assume we do and we keep the full history. What would be the amount of space a Subversion repository would take up? I…
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cvs2svn and merge info

I want to convert a CVS project to Subversion, using cvs2svn. It has a main trunk (HEAD), with several temporary development branches created from the trunk. Before we convert it, we'll merge the latest changes from the trunk into all of the dev…
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Re-importing from CVS into Subversion

The problem I'm trying to solve is not dissimilar to Subversion out of sync with production code, easiest way to update subversion but somewhat different. I converted a (Java) project from CVS to SVN (using cvs2svn, retaining full history) - say at…
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Symbol ambiguities and repo layout

I'm trying to convert to SVN from CVS using cvs2svn and we want the layout to have trunk/tags/branches inside each project. First I tried this: sudo cvs2svn -s /build/svn-test3 /build/cvs2016-02-08 Which didn't give me the right layout. I got…
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Is it possible to restrict branching and tagging in CVS at the server?

We need to convert a production CVS respository to SVN. We are using CVS2SVN for the raw conversion process as well as some other tools. Because this is a live development repository, the downtime at the repository switchover point is fairly…
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Getting information about the CVS server from CVS checkout files

I have CVS checkout files. I am trying to migrate into SVN repository keeping the history of CVS.How can I get the information for its migration from the CVS checkout files so that i can keep track of CVS repository?
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Converting from CVS to SVN to Hg, does 'hg convert' require pointing to an SVN checkout or just a repo?

As part of migrating full CVS history to Hg, I've used cvs2svn to create an SVN repo in a local directory. It's first level directory structure is: 2010-04-21 09:39 AM . 2010-04-21 09:39 AM .. 2010-04-21 09:39…
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cvs2git covert cvs to git and push multiple branches gets: error: src refspec master does not match any

I use cvs2git to convert a cvs repo to git. This project/repo has multiple branches and tags. Anyway I was able to (didn't get any error msg) convert this cvs repo to git. But when I push the git project to github I am getting this error. I think it…
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Gradual cvs2svn migration in multiproject layout

My company currently uses two separate CVS repository for all of its projects. My boss has chosen to migrate to SVN at one condition: migration must be gradual and must cause at least downtime as possible. Given that I will keep the multi-repository…
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svn merge problems after cvs2svn migration

Our team had a cvs repository, which we converted to svn via cvs2svn. Our repository has a main branch (let's call in main), that effectively serves as trunk (even though it was technically branched off from trunk far in the past). After the…
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