Migration from CVS to SVN

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This page contains notes related to GRASS code migration (planned) from CVS to SVN.

Basic

  • The SVN command line interface is just like CVS, many tasks are identical- just change the program name from cvs to svn.

Gotchas

  • cvs2svn is known to break binary files (images) which were not imported into the CVS with the -kb flag. Luckily Glynn fixed most of these some months ago.
  • Files using keyword substitution, such as $Date$ in the description.html files, will have to have support for that enabled manually, once per file (or write a find routine with | xargs svn ...).
$ svn propset svn:keywords "Date" filename.txt
$ svn commit
  • how to maintain timestamps of files? We want to keep the last modification date, not the date of local download

GRASS CVS repository structure

Testing SVN repository

Copy of GRASS CVS repository

rsync -r --times --links --bwlimit=200 rsync://rsync.intevation.de/grass grass-cvs

→ cca 600 MB!

Creating SVN repository

grass6

cvs2svn --use-cvs --no-default-eol  -s grass6svn grass-cvs/grass6
...
Error summary:
ERROR: A CVS repository cannot contain both grass-cvs/grass6/display/d.erase/main.c,v and grass-cvs/grass6/display/d.erase/Attic/main.c,v
ERROR: A CVS repository cannot contain both grass-cvs/grass6/general/g.mapsets/main_inter.c,v and grass-cvs/grass6/general/g.mapsets/Attic/main_inter.c,v
ERROR: A CVS repository cannot contain both grass-cvs/grass6/include/gproj_api.h,v and grass-cvs/grass6/include/Attic/gproj_api.h,v
ERROR: A CVS repository cannot contain both grass-cvs/grass6/visualization/nviz/src/getCat.c,v and grass-cvs/grass6/visualization/nviz/src/Attic/getCat.c,v
Exited due to fatal error(s).

Solution:

Remove Attic files (?)

rm -f grass-cvs/grass6/display/d.erase/Attic/main.c,v
rm -f grass-cvs/grass6/general/g.mapsets/Attic/main_inter.c,v
rm -f grass-cvs/grass6/include/Attic/gproj_api.h,v
rm -f grass-cvs/grass6/visualization/nviz/src/Attic/getCat.c,v

Restart

cvs2svn --use-cvs --no-default-eol  -s grass6svn grass-cvs/grass6
...
----- pass 2 (CollateSymbolsPass) -----
ERROR: It is not clear how the following symbols should be converted.
Use --force-tag, --force-branch and/or --exclude to resolve the ambiguity.
   'releasebranch_6_2' is a tag in 2 files, a branch in 5259 files and has commits in 1513 files

Restart

cvs2svn --use-cvs --no-default-eol --force-branch=releasebranch_6_2 -s grass6svn grass-cvs/grass6

Exclude all undocumented braches

cvs2svn --use-cvs --no-default-eol --force-branch=releasebranch_6_2 \
--exclude="grass" \
--exclude="grassreleasebranch_5_0_0" \
--exclude="markus" \
--exclude="releasebranch_14_august_2001_5_0_0" \
--exclude="releasebranch_26_april_2002_5_0_0" \
--exclude="releasebranch_5_4" \
--exclude="unlabeled.*" \
-s grass6svn1 grass-cvs/grass6
...
----- pass 2 (CollateSymbolsPass) -----
Checking for blocked exclusions...
ERROR: The branch 'markus' cannot be excluded because the following symbols depend on it:
    'start'
    'releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0'
ERROR: The branch 'grass' cannot be excluded because the following symbols depend on it:
...
cvs2svn --use-cvs --no-default-eol --force-branch=releasebranch_6_2  \
--exclude="grass" \
--exclude="grassreleasebranch_5_0_0" \
--exclude="markus" \
--exclude="releasebranch_14_august_2001_5_0_0" \
--exclude="releasebranch_26_april_2002_5_0_0" \
--exclude="releasebranch_5_4" \
--exclude="unlabeled.*" \
--exclude="devices_cleanup_20000420" \
--exclude="post_compare_glynn_head_2002_11_27" \
--exclude="post_compare_glynn_release_2002_11_27" \
--exclude="post_merge_head_2002_01_22" \
--exclude="post_sync_2002_01_22" \
--exclude="pre-curses-fix" \
--exclude="pre_merge_head_2002_01_22" \
--exclude="pre_merge_release_2002_01_22" \
--exclude="pre_sync_2001_10_31" \
--exclude="pre_sync_2002_01_17" \
--exclude="release_03_11_2003_grass5_0_3" \
--exclude="release_05_11_2004_grass5_4_0" \
--exclude="release_10_04_2003_grass5_0_2" \
--exclude="release_13_may_2002_grass5_0_0_pre4" \
--exclude="release_13_september_2001_grass5_0_0_pre2" \
--exclude="release_15_05_2004_grass5_3_0" \
--exclude="release_16_january_2002_grass5_0_0_pre3" \
--exclude="release_17_06_2004_grass5_7_0" \
--exclude="release_25_06_2002_grass5_0_0_pre5" \
--exclude="release_28_01_2003_grass5_0_1" \
--exclude="release_30_08_2002_grass5_0_0" \
--exclude="releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0" \
--exclude="releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0_DEAD" \
--exclude="releasebranch_500" \
--exclude="releasebranch_5_0_0" \
--exclude="release_grass500pre1_20_may_2001" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta10_7_december_2000" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta11_4_february_2001" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta11pre1_21_january_2001" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta11pre2_28_january_2001" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta6_16_feb_2000" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta7_20_april_2000" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta8_26_july_2000" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta9_6_december_2000" \
--exclude="start" \
--exclude="testbranch_5_0_0stable" \
--exclude="unlabeled-1.1.1.1.4" \
--exclude="unlabeled-1.1.1.1.6" \
--exclude="color_changes_20010502" \
-s grass6svn grass-cvs/grass6

Add other switches (e.g. --encoding) ??

cvs2svn --use-cvs --no-default-eol --force-branch=releasebranch_6_2  \
--exclude="grass" \
--exclude="grassreleasebranch_5_0_0" \
--exclude="markus" \
--exclude="releasebranch_14_august_2001_5_0_0" \
--exclude="releasebranch_26_april_2002_5_0_0" \
--exclude="releasebranch_5_4" \
--exclude="unlabeled.*" \
--exclude="devices_cleanup_20000420" \
--exclude="post_compare_glynn_head_2002_11_27" \
--exclude="post_compare_glynn_release_2002_11_27" \
--exclude="post_merge_head_2002_01_22" \
--exclude="post_sync_2002_01_22" \
--exclude="pre-curses-fix" \
--exclude="pre_merge_head_2002_01_22" \
--exclude="pre_merge_release_2002_01_22" \
--exclude="pre_sync_2001_10_31" \
--exclude="pre_sync_2002_01_17" \
--exclude="release_03_11_2003_grass5_0_3" \
--exclude="release_05_11_2004_grass5_4_0" \
--exclude="release_10_04_2003_grass5_0_2" \
--exclude="release_13_may_2002_grass5_0_0_pre4" \
--exclude="release_13_september_2001_grass5_0_0_pre2" \
--exclude="release_15_05_2004_grass5_3_0" \
--exclude="release_16_january_2002_grass5_0_0_pre3" \
--exclude="release_17_06_2004_grass5_7_0" \
--exclude="release_25_06_2002_grass5_0_0_pre5" \
--exclude="release_28_01_2003_grass5_0_1" \
--exclude="release_30_08_2002_grass5_0_0" \
--exclude="releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0" \
--exclude="releasebranch_11_april_2001_5_0_0_DEAD" \
--exclude="releasebranch_500" \
--exclude="releasebranch_5_0_0" \
--exclude="release_grass500pre1_20_may_2001" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta10_7_december_2000" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta11_4_february_2001" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta11pre1_21_january_2001" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta11pre2_28_january_2001" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta6_16_feb_2000" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta7_20_april_2000" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta8_26_july_2000" \
--exclude="release_grass5beta9_6_december_2000" \
--exclude="start" \
--exclude="testbranch_5_0_0stable" \
--exclude="unlabeled-1.1.1.1.4" \
--exclude="unlabeled-1.1.1.1.6" \
--exclude="color_changes_20010502" \
--encoding="ASCII" \
--encoding="UTF-8" \
--encoding="ISO-8859-1" \
-s grass6svn grass-cvs/grass6

grass6svn

grass6 HEAD → grass7

cvs2svn --use-cvs --no-default-eol --force-branch=releasebranch_6_2 --trunk-only -s grass7svn grass-cvs/grass6

grass7svn

External links

SVN hosting

There are two main options to host the new SVN repository.