Re: [savannah-help-public] GAP project CVS -> SVN migration

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Karl,

On 02/08/14 00:57, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Riccardo,
>
>      I'd like to migrate the GAP project repository from CVS to SVN,
>
> It would be best if you could run cvs2svn yourself, and provide us with
> an svn dump, which we can easily import.  There are some notes about it
> on the wiki:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/CvSToSvN
> (and then http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/SvnImportExistingRepo)
>
> And of course there are plenty of other notes about cvs2svn around on
> the net.  When I converted texinfo from cvs to svn, it "just worked".
> (I was amazed. :)
Fine, it took me a bit, the guide is slighty outdated. I had issues with 
default encoding, but eventually managed to do
0) wrote to the GAP developer mailing list do refrain from committing to 
cvs (!)
1) a single pass of cvs2svn (2.x, so I did not do anything to filetype 
conversion, kept it binary, but otherwise copied the options)
2) dumped it as prescribed and compressed it with bzip
3) uploaded it in download/gap as gap-svn.bz2, it should be around 25M
4) enabled SVN for GAP

if everything works fine, I'd expect to find a repo called "gap" with 
user-apps, system-apps and such stuff inside. Please let me know!
I hope everything goes fine. A good question, except looking at the 
layout and checking some files, how will I know? Build everything and 
hope nothing corrupted?

Let me know when you imported it!


>      [1] Actually there were two wrong commits which could be skipped to
>      give a cleaner layout.
>
> I wouldn't advise going down that road.
I refrained from that, perhaps it can be handled later.

Riccardo

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