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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Moving to SubVersion
From:       "Jason Voegele" <jason () jvoegele ! com>
Date:       2004-10-08 20:42:01
Message-ID: 35648.216.196.200.196.1097268121.squirrel () std5 ! imagineis ! com
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Tobias Koenig said:
> How to migrate?
>
> 1) Disconnect cvs.kde.org for one hour
> 2) Make a copy of the cvs repository
> 3) Run csv2svn over the copy

Having used the cvs2svn script, I can tell you that it will take much
longer than one hour to complete the conversion of KDE's CVS repository
over to Subversion.  I'd suspect you're talking on the order of *days*
rather than hours.

> 4) Test the svn repository by checking it out and run a diff over
>    the cvs and the svn checkout
> 5) Check if the branches were converted correctly (this might take the
> most time) 6) Move the svn repository back to cvs.kde.org
> 7) Put svn.kde.org online
>
> All good things count 7, so nothing can goes wrong.
>
> Ciao,
> Tobias
> --
> Separate politics from religion and economy!


-- 
Jason Voegele
"There is an essential core at the center of each man and woman that
remains unaltered no matter how life's externals may be transformed
or recombined. But it's smaller than we think."
    -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the Long Sun



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