[Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion

[Fernando Perez]

Tim Peters wrote:

> [Martin v. Löwis]

>> The conversion should be done using cvs2svn utility, available e.g.
>> in the cvs2svn Debian package. The command for converting the Python
>> repository is

[...]
 
> I'm sending this to Jim Fulton because he did the conversion of Zope
> Corp's code base to SVN.  Unfortunately, Jim will soon be out of touch
> for several weeks.  Jim, do you have time to summarize the high bits
> of the problems you hit?  IIRC, you didn't find any conversion script
> at the time capable of doing the whole job as-is.  If that's wrong, it
> would be good to know that too.

If you hit any snags, you may be interested in contacting the admin for
scipy.org.  The scipy CVS repo choked cvs2svn pretty badly a while ago, but
recent efforts eventually prevailed.  This afternoon an email arrived from
him:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [SciPy-dev] SciPy CVS to Subversion migration
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:02:59 -0500
From: Joe Cooper <joe at enthought.com>
Reply-To: SciPy Developers List <scipy-dev at scipy.net>
To: SciPy Dev List <scipy-dev at scipy.net>

Hi all,

The issues with converting our CVS repository to Subversion have been 
resolved, and so I'd like to make the switch tomorrow (Friday) afternoon.

[...]

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I know Joe was in contact with the SVN devs to work on this, so perhaps he's
using a patched version of cvs2svn, I simply don't know.  But I mention it in
case it proves useful to the python.org conversion.

cheers,

f