[BNM] Version Control Software - any one?

[Dominic Mitchell]

Tom Hume wrote:
> We use CVS at FP, but enviously look over at Subversion.
> 
> Anyone had experience migrating large (1GB) source trees from CVS to  
> SVN?

We did it a couple of years ago.  I did a trial conversion of the 
repository, and it worked, but the results were pretty ugly.  Instead, I 
converted each project on an as-needed basis.  That ended up with a much 
cleaner (and more manageable) repository structure.  Not only that, but 
it introduced people to subversion bit by bit, rather than having a big 
"flag day".  Training was probably the biggest issue overall.  Though 
this was really helped by the fact that svn was designed to replace cvs, 
so the basic ideas are the same.

I'm not certain of the size of the repository at the time.  It was 
probably 400Mb, not 1Gb.

-Dom