Re: [swarm-hackers] swarm SVN

[Scott Christley]

So any comments or issues?  Does anybody object to moving to SVN?

If not then I would like to move the process forward.  Does anybody  
have outstanding modifications that they have not committed to CVS?   
If you do then please check them in, if they are not in a finished  
state then it would be better to hold-off and just copy them over to a  
new SVN checkout.

thanks
Scott


On Oct 1, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Scott Christley wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Well there certainly are a number of interesting version control  
> systems out there, git and mercurial have an interesting distributed  
> philosophy, I especially like how you can commit your changes  
> locally.  What I don't quite exactly grok is how releases would  
> work, does somebody have to own the "release" repository?  Or maybe  
> we setup some common repository which is used for this purpose?   
> This is obviously handled in some way because the Linux kernel is  
> using it.
>
> Anyways, it seems the consensus is that SVN would be a good  
> improvement, we can go this step pretty easy.  I tried out the  
> conversion process, essentially used rsync to get a local copy of  
> the CVS repository, then ran cvs2svn converter script.  The script  
> had an issue with just a few files, all ones sitting in Attic.  For  
> one file, it appears the metadata was corrupt, for the other files,  
> they existed in both the repository as well as the Attic, which  
> shouldn't happen.  I pretty much just deleted those Attic files and  
> the conversion went smoothly, only took about 10 minutes.
>
> I've put a copy of the converted SVN repository up on the my web  
> site, you can download and check it out to see how it looks.
>
> http://silver.ics.uci.edu/~schristl/projects/swarm/swarm-svn.tgz
>
> Create a temporary directory and unarchive into it, then you can  
> checkout the whole repository.
>
> svn co file://path_to_repository
>
> Note that even though the repository is only about 100M, the  
> complete checkout will be almost 1G because of all the branches and  
> tags.  Also, some tags have the same name, but only different in  
> case, so the checkout will get an error on case-insensitive file  
> systems such as Mac OSX, we can easily fix this by renaming those  
> tags.
>
> If we decide to do the conversion, we should wait and give everybody  
> a chance to commit any changes they have to get a final CVS, then  
> convert and request Savannah to install it.  Not sure how long it  
> will take Savannah to do that.
>
> cheers
> Scott
>
>
>
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