Re: [matplotlib-devel] svn ancient history broken

[Darren D. <dsd...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Andrew Straw <str...@as...> wrote:
>> On 29-Jan-11 01:08, John Hunter wrote:
>>>
>>>> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/matplotlib co
>>>> -P matplotlib
>>>
>>> cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to
>>> cvs.sourceforge.net(216.34.181.96):2401 failed: Connection refused
>>>
>>> Amazing how fragile digital data is!
>>
>> SF may simply have turned off CVS for now:
>> http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-net-attack/
>
> Thanks Andrew.
>
> As much as I would like to push the git repos to github today, I think
> it is worth waiting. When SF CVS comes back up, I can attempt to
> convert the CVS repository to SVN, verify that the data has been
> preserved, and convert r1:540 to git. Then I can convert the master
> svn repo starting at r541, and graft the result onto the older
> history. When the resulting repo is postprocessed to clean it up and
> reduce the size, the graft would be made permanent (is actually
> incorporated into the history, as opposed to being a reference in
> .git/info/grafts).

Sourceforge just enabled enough access to get a copy of the cvs
repository by doing:

rsync -av matplotlib.cvs.sourceforge.net::cvsroot/matplotlib/* .

So, if I have the cvs repo in a local directory called "mpl.cvs", then I can do:

cvs2svn --encoding=utf_8 -s mpl.svn mpl.cvs

Unfortunately, I am getting exactly the same results: the matplotlib/
directory is missing in the earliest history. I've tried adding
--use-cvs and --keep-trivial-imports, to no avail. I've tried checking
out a working copy of the cvs repo (setting CVSROOT to point to the
directory I created using rsync), and I *thought* the right way to
inspect the r7 working directory is to do "cvs update -R -r 7", but
thats not right. So I'm currently having trouble determining whether
the history even exists in CVS. Anybody have a longer memory than I
do? How can I get cvs to perform this basic operation?

Darren