Hello, I am trying to write a couple of quick scripts to help migrate us to svn from cvs and to help display statistics about our new svn codebase.
We're running on a Red Hat enterprise 5 Linux, with all the usual utilities, and svn 1.6.15 First, if we simply migrate to cvs we will lose the history of what we currently have in cvs. I was hoping to retrieve each diff from cvs, apply it, and check it into cvs. Before even attempting to write something, I wondered whether anyone here already has such a thing. This seems like a wonderful utility to have, since it would naturally encourage people to make the switch. For cvs, I can use the command: cvs history -a -c to generate me a list of all changes to the archive, the date, the user who applied it, the file, and the directory it was in. 1. I don't have access to the svn machine itself, and svnadmin does not accept a URL. I'm not looking for write access, just to be able to read and gather statistics. Is there any way out? Can I copy the svn archive locally and then do the work, or do I need access to the machine? 2. What is the analogous command to get me a list of svn modifications? I'm looking for the ability to extract all changes sequentially from a svn archive for analysis On page 299 of the manual I can see the command svnadmin dump /var/svn/repos -r 21 --incremental > incr.dump This seems like what I would need to pull out each change, and I could increment from rev 1 to the maximum number. Is this the best way, or is there some other approach? Last, since presumably advanced svn users might know cvs from before, what would the equivalent command in cvs? Is it: cvs diff -r rev1 -r rev2 file Last, if I wanted to programmatically take each change in cvs and enter it in svn going back 6 months, the script would need to be able to insert as the individual user. Is there any way of bypassing security in svn itself, or do I have to su each user and run the given commit? I can see doing that as root, but if there's a cleaner way.... This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) not therefore be liable for the message if modified. Please note that certain functions and services for BNP Paribas may be performed by BNP Paribas RCC, Inc.
