From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2007-01-12 17:50:10
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:48:36PM +0100, silverdr@inet.com.pl wrote:
> We did it slightly different way. We didn't move the whole CVS
> revision history but backed the CVS completely up, frozen it and
> started afresh with SVN while keeping the frozen CVS up for about a
> year. After this year it's been backed up again and diffed with the
> old backup (to be on the safe side) and shut down as it became
> practically irrelevant anymore. In case of a remotely possible need
> for digging out some older revisions, which were stored still in CVS,
> there is always a possibility of restoring it. Until now it hasn't
> happened and I believe it won't happen possibly at all ;-)
I'm using CVS for private/business projects for more than 10 years now, and
I've checked in stuff that is even older than that. So the repository
documents my own programming history, and I would really regret loosing it.
Some day, when I'm an old man with a white beard, I'm going to show it to my
grandchildren and say "Look here, this is how your grandfather started
hacking":-)
cvs2svn, as mentioned by Marko, sounds like a possible solution, and I will
have a look at it once I have some spare time.
BTW: We are using TortoiseSVN in the company to access the subversion
repository. Unfortunately it is a Windows only client, but apart from that it
is really great. Even I - as a dedicated command line hacker - have to admit
that. Windows users may want to give it a try.
Regards
Uz
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Ullrich von Bassewitz uz@musoftware.de
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