[B2-devel] Subversion

[Gwenole B. <gb....@fr...>]

Hi,

What about switching to subversion? The immediate gain I see is:
- Cheap copies, files can be moved and changelogs are kept
- ChangeSets are much more convenient to get the whole commit instead 
of looking for individual files

You can still use viewcvs for the web interface which IMHO is the best 
anyway. Too few projects use it though, I don't know why as it's much 
more convenient.

FYI, we converted (some of) our projects as follows:

* On the CVS server (or with a copy in xxx):
cvs2svn --dump-only --cvs-revnums --encoding=latin1

* On the SVN server:
svn mkdir -m "adding xxx" file:///svn/wherever/xxx
svnadmin load /svn --parent-dir /wherever/xxx < cvs2svn-dump

If you have problems with branches or tags, you may have to force them 
with --force-branch=the_branch or --force-tag=the_tag.

Note that I did not make the migration myself, I simply asked for the 
procedure to the project admin.

Bye,
Gwenole.