Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:05:52 -0500 From: Munish Chopra <chopra@soulwax.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is FreeBSD going? Message-ID: <20040108180552.GA17378@opiate.soulwax.net> In-Reply-To: <1073582974.37229.8.camel@herring.nlsystems.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040107151556.6025A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <1073582974.37229.8.camel@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On 2004-01-08 17:29 +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: [...] > > The three main showstoppers for moving FreeBSD to subversion would be: > > 1. A replacement for cvsup. Probably quite doable using svnadmin > dump and load. > 2. Support for $FreeBSD$ - user-specified keywords are not supported > and won't be until after svn-1.0 by the looks of things. > 3. Converting the repository. This is a tricky one - I tried the > current version of the migration scripts and they barfed and died > pretty quickly. Still, I'm pretty sure that the svn developers > are planning to fix most of those problems. From mailing-list > archives, it appears that they are using our cvs tree as test > material for the migration scripts. Perfection (or as close as possible) of cvs2svn.py is scheduled for 1.0. They've entered beta now, but without scanning the lists I suppose that's "sometime 2004". I've noticed some other projects having problems with repository conversion, but at least things seem to be getting better. -- Munish Chopra
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