| This is a python script which converts a CVS repository to an SVN Repository. |
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| It works by: |
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| * using the rcsparse.py module to directly read the CVS repository |
| and deduce commits, |
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| * creating a bunch of temporary scratchwork on disk, |
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| * replaying all of the commits into a new SVN repository. |
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| Most of the script was written by Greg Stein (gstein@lyra.org) and |
| Daniel Berlin (dberlin@dberlin.org). |
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| ** As of September 2002, this script works reasonably well, with two |
| big caveats: |
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| - it doesn't yet detect branches or tags |
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| - there may be tiny bugs in the way it deduces CVS commits. |
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| That said, the script has been used on straightforward CVS |
| repositories with no real problems. As an example, the whole first |
| year of Subversion's own history was converted from CVS into a |
| 3000+ revision svn repository. It took about 30 minutes. |
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| ** To use this script: |
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| - Get at least python 2.0. |
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| - Install the rcsparse.py module. It's a part of the ViewCVS project. |
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| - Install the python swig bindings, so that python can directly |
| invoke libsvn_fs routines. See the INSTALL file in |
| subversion/bindings/swig/. |
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