[Springframework-developer] Attempt to mirror CVS (cvs.sourceforge.net) using SVK

[Chris T. <chr...@gm...>]

Hi,

I am attempting to utilize a version control system called SVK with
the spring project.  SVK is a decentralized version control that uses
the subversion libraries.  It has the ability mirror a remote CVS
repository using VCP.

I am trying mirror Spring's CVS repository with it.  On the first try,
the mirroring chugs along for several hours, until it hits a commit
comment it cannot decode properly.  Upon subsequent tries, the
mirroring does not take as long, but it always fails at the same point
with a decoding error.

I spoke with the SVK developer, he said the error is occuring when
converting one of the commit comments to UTF-8.  The problem is the
SVK error message is vague, so I am unable to track down the offending
commit comment.

Right now I am using UTF-8 encoding.  Is there any special encoding
that may have been used for commit comments?

Has anyone successfully used SVK to mirror Spring's CVS repository?=20
If so, did you have to do anything special?

Thanks,
Chris Tilden