Questions tagged [cvs2svn]

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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What is the format for specifying multiple tags to exclude from cvs2git

I understand I can perform a conversion of a CVS repository to GIT excluding all NIGHTLY_XXXX build tags by doing the following cvs2git --exclude='NIGHTLY_.*' --blobfile=git-blob.dat --dumpfile=git-dump.dat --username=dev…
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How to deal with a large number of nested CVS projects

Never done this before, so I'm probably just being a noob... I'm trying to migrate our aged CVS repository to GitLab and I'm not sure how to handle the nested CVS projects. We have a LOT of them (i.e. about 1600 .project files dotted through the CVS…
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How are the commit timestamps generated in cvs2git/cvs2svn?

I am converting a very old and huge CVS repository to Git using cvs2git via Cygwin. It works fine and I started testing the new repository. I found no bigger peculiarities. But I wonder how the timestamps of a commit/change set are determined. So…
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Previous svn log is not displayed

Firstly, I have migrated my CVS repository into SVN repository. I checked out this whole SVN repository and make some changes like rearranging the directories into branches and tags. The I imported it into the new SVN repository. I am using…
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Converting many CVS modules into a single SVN repository

I have a rather large CVS repository that I am looking to only convert a handful of modules into a single Subversion repository. I have been correctly guided to using cvs2svn for the conversion and have even gotten as far as building my own options…
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Can I migrate single file from CVS to SVN?

There is a file sitting in CVS repository of a project now, which needs to be moved to another project using SVN. And I want to keep the history of the commits. Is there a way to do so?
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what is the maximum limit that svnadmin load/dump file execute

I am migrating cvs and Subversion 1.6 repos to new subversion 1.8 server. I use cvs2svn for CVS dump and svnadmin dump to create dump files and load in new subversion server. My CVS repositories maximum size is 8 GB and Subversion repos 15 GB in…
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cvs2svn tool : can we run cvs2svn on live repository. I mean actual repository?

I need to migrate CVS repo to SVN repo. I have cvs2svn installed on CVS server. Can I run cvs2svn tool directly on the CVS repo path which is in live. The FAQ in URL "http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html#oneatatime" says that I need to run on a work…
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Where does respository resides in after converting CVS repository into SVN using cvs2svn?

I am using cvs2svn for converting already existing CVS repository into svn repository. While doing it using command line , it makes all the passes and creates a repository in the SVN. But i am not able to find all the files in the particular …
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Missing files on branch after cvs2svn import

A colleague has imported a CVS repository into a pre-existing SVN repository using a cvs2svn dumpfile (like "svnadmin load --parent-dir /path < dumpfile") , which I originally created from the CVS repo. Now that I'm trying to checkout and build from…
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SVN problems after migration with CVS2SVN

We´ve migrated from CVS on AIX to SVN on Linux via CVS2SVN. The migration seems to have went well but when working in SVN we get a lot of Tree Conflicts that doesn´t seem to be conflicts at all? Looking at the revision graphs, one can see that the…
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cvs2hg configuration in windows

We are planning to migrate complex cvs repository with history to Mercurial. I have configured cvs2hg in my local machine and cvs(pserver)has installed in remote server. I am facing below errors while I migrating code from remote cvs repository to…
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cvs2svn output is missing files

I've recently converted a CVS repo using cvs2svn however I'm confused as to the output. After running the tool, it appears it successfully ran, but there's no files in my SVN. Here's the output from the tool after it ran.. it looks good. However…
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MemoryError using CVS2SVN

I'm trying to migrate a CSV repository to SVN using csv2svn. After dealing with some errors during the first pass (CollectRevsPass), i'm in the fourth step and this error…
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CVS2Git is generating blank dump file

CVS2Git is generating blank dump file everytime I run the command: ./cvs2git --blobfile=git-blob.dat --dumpfile=git-dump.dat --username=NL475475-v --fallback-encoding='utf8' /cygdrive/d/NewIDM --sort="xsort.pl" OR ./cvs2git --options=test.options…
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