[Zope-dev] Re: Attention: cvs to subversion transition May 11

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Tue May 11 10:01:38 EDT 2004


I'm about to begin the conversion now. Please don't make any more changes to the
Zope, Zope3, ZODB, ZConfig, zLOG, or zdaemon CVS heads.

Jim

Jim Fulton wrote:
> I plan to do the transition tomorrow, Tuesday may 11.
> 
> I'll begin at 10am US/Eastern and be done by 5pm US/Eastern.
> 
> During this time, I ask that no one make checkins to the CVS head for
> those projects.  The first thing I will do is to tag the head with the
> tag: 'cvs-to-svn-conversion'.  When I'm done, I will remove all files 
> from the
> heads of the preojects in CVS, except README.txt files giving subversion 
> access
> instructions.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Sorry for the false start.
>>>
>>> I totally missed a flaw in subversion's handling of text-file line 
>>> endings.
>>> I suspect that this is fixable, but it's not going to be fixed today.
>>
>>
>>
>> I think that this issue has been "resolved".  I have updated my cvs to 
>> svn
>> conversion software to set the svn:eol-style property to "native" on text
>> files so that they will get Windows line endings when checked out on 
>> Windows
>> and Unix line endings when checked out on Unix-based systems.
>> I've updated the demonstration repository with the results of this 
>> conversion.
>> Note that it's possible that existing checkouts will need to be 
>> discarded, as I've
>> totallly rebuilt the repository.
>>
>> To browse the respository:
>>
>>   http://svn.zope.org/
>>
>> To do a read-only checkout:
>>
>>   svn co svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/<project>/trunk
>>
>> or, to do a writable checkout:
>>
>>   svn co svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/main/<project>/trunk
>>
>>
>> Developers who add new files will need to set the svn:eol-style
>> property on new text files. There are ways to automate this and we'll
>> provide some guidence on this at:
>>
>>   http://dev.zope.org/Subversion
>>
>> BTW, someone has done some work on that Wiki, which was a copy of 
>> dev.zope.orf/CVS,
>> to convert the CVS references and instructions to refer to and 
>> document Subversion
>> instead. Thanks! I think that there is still a good bit of work to 
>> do.  Volunteer help
>> would be much appreciated.
>>
>> I'm thinking of trying again to do the cvs to svn conversion of the 
>> main-line
>> development branches (cvs heads) on Tusday May 11. This would entail 
>> moving
>> ZODB, Zope 2, and Zope 3 head development to subversion (along with 
>> ZConfig,
>> zdaemon, and zLOG).
>>
>> Any objections?
>>
>> Jim
>>
> 
> 


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