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List:       subversion-dev
Subject:    Re: CVS.EXE for Subversion?
From:       Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman () collab ! net>
Date:       2005-06-29 21:27:42
Message-ID: BC8A4790-16E0-4BDF-B112-E3DC32B7E229 () collab ! net
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On Jun 29, 2005, at 3:50 PM, patrick.maloney@wcb.state.ny.us wrote:

> Hi all...new here...I'm running JBuilder X Enterprise and I would  
> like to
> try out Subversion with that, but it only supports CVS.  I'm kinda  
> tired of
> a new JB upgrade coming out every 4-5 months and having to shell  
> out all
> kinds of $$$ for it.  I'm not going to upgrade to JB 2005 just to get
> Subversion access...not at this point any way.
>
> I've scanned the list archives and don't see what I am looking for  
> which is
> a CVS-named executable that takes arguments in the format CVS would  
> expect,
> converts them to their SVN equivalents, calls the SVN client, and then
> converts the results into the format CVS would return.  Any such  
> beast out
> there?  An alternate suggestion perhaps?
>

This is an impossible pipe dream, in my opinion.  CVS and SVN vaguely  
look and feel the same, but a lot of concepts are radically  
different.  There's no way you could get a clean semantic translation  
by merely doing syntactic manipulation... that way lies madness,  
sorry.  :-)


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