[BNM] Version Control Software - any one?

Dominic Mitchell dom at happygiraffe.net
Mon Apr 2 13:31:59 BST 2007


On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:29:19PM +0100, Richard Dallaway wrote:
> 
> On 2 Apr 2007, at 09:23, Martin Tomes wrote:
> > I believe that a good option is to export the current code from CVS  
> > and
> > import it into Subversion and when you need history go back to CVS. If
> > you install ViewVC you can look at both with the same interface. Over
> > time you will be looking at the CVS history less and less.
> 
> cvs2svn worked for us.
> 
> http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/

That's what I used as well.  Works a treat.

Like I said before though, cvs repositories tend to be messy places, so
it's worthwhile converting over a project at a time, in order to bring
some sanity to your svn repository.

-Dom



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