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

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 02/09/14 19:17, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Hello Riccardo,
>
> If you would be so kind as to say more specifically what problems you
> had and what you needed to do we would update the guide accordingly.
I had to add:
--fallback-encoding=utf-8

To work around a single spurious character in a file, or conversion 
would not terminate.


> Are you talking about the use of --mime-types?  I am rather hoping
> projects avoid checking in random binary files at all.
I did not use any of them I suppose everything is binary, as cvs did. 
older version of cvs2svn defaulted to text, since 2.x it defaults to 
binary. The use of mime-types sounded complcated since I do not have 
/etc/mime.types

At the end I used

cvs2svn --use-cvs --fs-type=fsfs --username=rmottola --cvs-revnums 
--fallback-encoding=utf-8 -s gap-svn gap > & err.txt

where "gap" is my cvs repo (in the previous attempt I used the parent 
directory which I suppose created the level too much).

Riccardo