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

or

$ find . -name '*.c' | xargs svn propset svn:keywords "Date" 
$ find . -name '*.html' | xargs svn propset svn:keywords "Date" 
$ 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

/grass-cvs
|
+---/CVSROOT
|
+---/grass
|
+---/grass51
|
+---/grass6
|
+---/grass_doc
|
+---/libgrass
|
+---/newsletter
|
+---/programgrass50
|
+---/web



GRASS OSGeo SVN repository structure

Scenario 2

Scripts:

./grass-cvs2svn-base.sh
./grass-cvs2svn-s2.sh
./grass-cvs2svn-wxpython.sh

grass-svn2

GRASS 7 development notes


External links

SVN hosting

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