On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 2:21 PM Mark Rutz <mark.r...@comtechmobile.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > > > Does anyone have procedures or tools for converting Micro Focus StarTeam > repositories to Subversion? We would like to convert the main branch with > history for each repository. The team is small enough there is no need to > port the existing permissions scheme, etc. The branches can be left for > cold storage, as I don’t expect them to be needed by any of the developers > going forward. We have a few perpetual licenses for StarTeam to keep it in > the attic just in case. > > > > I’m aware of the svn-importer tool from Polarion ( > https://polarion.plm.automation.siemens.com/products/svn/svn_importer), > but as far as I know that hasn’t been updated since 2011. I was hoping to > find something more current. Recently StarTeam added interfaces to work > with Git, but I have yet to see a way to use that angle for the conversion > either. > > > > Thanks in advance for any recommended strategies and tools > Hi Mark, With the caveat that I haven't worked with StarTeam nor the above svn-importer tool: Since the svn-importer tool is no-cost and claims to do the trick, that is the first avenue I would investigate, even though the tool appears not to have been updated in a while. If it can migrate the data to Subversion successfully, even if it generates an older Subversion format, you should be able to then use Subversion to update the data format to the latest. If that avenue doesn't get the job done for whatever reason, I would then check whether StarTeam can export a dumpstream that Subversion can import directly (though I think this is unlikely). If not, then StarTeam's interfaces to Git that you mentioned may be useful as an intermediate step. Occasionally we get questions about how to migrate from Git to Subversion. You may want to search the list archives, see [1], for such questions. We just recently had a question about Git to Subversion migration, see [2]. I'll mention here that Git has a git-svn bridge that can push a linear sequence of git commits to Subversion. Note that you may have to do some manipulation of the intermediate git repository's history to get it into a state that will push cleanly to a Subversion repository. This might take a little experimentation, or it might just work. The git-svn bridge is part of Git; see [3] and [4]. It's possible others will chime in with more thoughts/experiences. Feel free to ask more questions if you need to, and it would be great if you could circle back later and tell us what ultimately did the trick. That will help others who have the same question in the future. [1] https://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ref1c000c9d34869f6785cddd38d1e054c8007c0bc56905476e288b3d%40%3Cusers.subversion.apache.org%3E [3] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Git-as-a-Client [4] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-svn Cheers, Nathan
