In Conversion to Subversion: Tags, I explained how I cleaned up the tags portion of the CVS dump file in order to generate a subversion repository in the format I wanted. Lars Mentrup emailed to say that I had not been clear enough on a few points. After re-reading what I wrote, I have to… Read More »
In the first article of this series, Conversion to Subversion, Part I, I described the problem I found in trying to convert a project from my CVS repository to Subversion. In my last article, Conversion to Subversion: The Project’s Trunk, I described the solution that I used to convert a basic project with no tags… Read More »
In Conversion to Subversion, Part I, I described the problems I found when I began converting my CVS repository to Subversion. In this article, I describe the work and surprises that came from the first project migration. My first idea was to build the repository from the dump file and then fix the result using… Read More »
For about a year now, I’ve been playing with Subversion on small projects. In order to protect my main repository in CVS from my experiments, I just created new projects under Subversion and worked with them there. All of my real projects continued under CVS control. This way if my experiments with Subversion were a… Read More »
If you haven’t tried Subversion yet, you really owe it to yourself to give it a try. I’ve used CVS for over a decade now and I’ve been trying Subversion for a little less than a year. I haven’t yet moved most of my home projects to Subversion, but it’s looking more probable every day.… Read More »