[LLVMdev] CVS Branches To Discard?

Reid Spencer
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:43:44 -0000

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 20:05 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Reid,
>
> > A deficiency in the cvs2svn script causes it to bloat the Subversion
> > repository (significantly, as in 10x) in the conversion of branches
> > and tags.
>
> It's probably a bit late in the day, but have you considered other CVS
> to SVN conversion tools, e.g. Tailor?
>
>     http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor
>     http://darcs.arstecnica.it/tailor/

Yes, we looked at Tailor and found cvs2svn to be better for our needs.
In particular, Tailor doesn't group cvs commits into SVN revisions well.
Anton did the selection so follow up with him for details :)

Thanks,

Reid.

>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Ralph.