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cvs2svn is a tool for migrating a CVS repository to Subversion, git, or Bazaar.

cvs2svn is a tool for migrating a repository to , , or .

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Convert git repository file encoding

I have a large CVS repository containing files in ISO-8859-1 and want to convert this to git. Sure I can configure git to use ISO-8859-1 for encoding, but I would like to have it in utf8. Now with tools such as iconv or recode I can convert the…
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SVN layout -- best practice

In CVS we have on project with multiple directories in there. There is a nightly build that has to pull in stuff from different directory in the same CVS project in order to build the nightly build. So I should have that in mind and I have to …
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cvs2svn fails with "xxx is not a valid ,v file"

I finally found an answer to my question when I wanted to post it! However I'll still post it, including my answer, in case it helps someone else: When converting from CVS to Subversion cvs2svn failed on some files with the message "xxx is not a…
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CVS comma-v files in Attic and directory

I have a production CVS repository that is a number of years old and have noticed that it has comma-v files with the same name in both Attic and in the actual directory for a given location. This appears to be an error. My question is how can this…
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How to migrate from CVS to SVN by using cvs2svn tool?

I want to migrate from CVS to SVN by using cvs2svn tool. I want a step by step process on how to migrate. I have no idea about the usage of the tools. Basically I am a java fresher. I dont have knowledge on cvs2svn tool and neither on python…
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cvs2svn cvs2git: map cvs users to github users

I used cvs2git to convert 1 cvs repo to git and push it to github. Everything works except that I don't see any contributors for my repo on github. I am wondering if there is a way to bring all the users from cvs and map them to github users.
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Alternative to cvs2svn for performing cvs to svn migration

I am trying to perform a migration from cvs to svn on my our new XServe server which is running OS X Server. There is a known conflict between the cvs2svn and dbm libraries that come pre-installed with OS X. The error is: ERROR: cvs2svn uses the…
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Installing/configuring gdbm Python module for cvs2svn?

I am trying to install cvs2svn on a Solaris 10 machine. It has Python 2.4.4 on it. I don't have root access. When I downloaded cvs2svn and tried to run it, it said ERROR: cvs2svn uses the anydbm package, which depends on lower level dbm libraries.…
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cvs2svn mime types

In order to take in account Richard's comment and Steen's answer of I have to specify independently of type mime file and independently of the type file marked in CVS, I am looking for how to treat all files as binary file in cvs2svn ? Perhaps is…
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I am getting following error while converting the CVS repository to SVN repository using cvs2svn

I am getting this error while while giving this command: cvs2svn --trunkonly --svnrepo /path/to/new/svn /path/to/existed/cvs/repo The error i am getting is Error summary: ERROR: No RCS files found Are you absolutely certain you are…
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Solving svnadmin error E160020 on trunk

The context I'm migrating old CVS repositories into SVN. We have a repository for our enterprise components and another for all company projects. For the company projects, for which the migration is scheduled to be manual for each project, we chose…
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How to import the result of a cvs2git migration into bitbucket

I just finished successfully (I hope) the process of migrating my CVS repository to GIT. Now I have a folder within there are files but I'm annoyed and a little bit stuck with it ! What I want to know now is what should I do to import the resulted…
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How do I clean up CVS vendor branch imports?

I have a CVS repository with a directory containing two vendor branches. The initial code was obtained from one source and checked in with a vendor name say X. Several years later, new code was checked in with another vendor branch name Y. If I…
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How can I check whether cvs2git is still running?

I have trigged off cvs to git migration with cvs2svn (cvs2git) for 4 days. My repository has a size of 12 GB and it is still in pass 7. pass 1: 66238 sec pass 2: 29.96 sec pass 3: 6.745 sec pass 4: 106343 sec pass 5: 2080 sec pass 6: 3955 sec So…
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When using cvs2svn how can you rename symbols such that a branch and tag resolve to the same name?

I am working on converting a CVS repository that has the following symbols (among others): tcm-6.1.0-branch -- a branch tcm-6.1.0 -- a tag Using the standard transformations cvs2svn identifies them properly. However, I'd like to do some clean up…
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