On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now that Subversion 1.5 has been out for a little while and it is at the
> point where it might actually have some benefit to us, do we have some
> volunteers who have some time to try converting over the repository and all
> the post-commit and ACL rules from CVSROOT?
You can count me in. I converted all of my websites and inside
projects from CVS to SVN earlier this year. It seemed a daunting
task, but it was trivial at best. I didn't use any of the automated
tools, though, I did it all manually.
> Talking to people here at OSCON, the consensus seems to be that moving to
> Subversion at this point would worthwhile. The Git/Bzr/Merc folks have
> better tools to deal with a central svn repository than cvs at this point,
> and the svn workflow and Windows tools won't leave all our less technical
> committers floundering.
Not to mention the community of developers for SVN, add-ons, et
cetera, and the ease of use via Apache.
> I think the most convenient approach would be to do the conversion directly
> on the cvs.php.net machine and run the two side-by-side with periodic
> imports to svn while we test things and then a freeze and a switchover at
> some point.
I'd agree. It may not hurt to write a quick script to do
real-life commits to both services from the command line, as well, in
the beginning.
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