[Gllug] Moving from CVS
Ian Norton
inorton at iee.org
Fri Aug 5 16:24:38 UTC 2005
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:49:10PM -0400, Sarah Ewen wrote:
> > Which leaves me with a problem: how to move a CVS repository and a
> > collection of working directories into a new VCS. Anyone done this?
>
> We moved from CVS -> Subversion without any problems, using subversion's
> repository conversion tool.
>
> IIRC the only repositories we had problems [we converted a bunch of
> users' repos. too] were ones that had ancient locks or problems that had
> never been cleared up, until we dealt with them at the time, and we got
> them all done pretty easily.
>
> going to subversion is pretty easy, if you want to.
how does subversion deal with symlinks? (as cvs doesnt)
Ian
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