On 05.12.2017 12:42, Bo Berglund wrote: > I need to migrate a CVSNT server repository to SVN. > The CVSNT cvs executable needs to be used in the cvs2svn script in > order to handle the CVSNT specific peculiarities. So I need to do the > first step of migration on Windows. > > The CVS repository is now about 8 GB in size and some version files > (the ,v files) are huge since they hold a large number of revisions of > binary files. Some are 500 Mbytes in size... > > When done then I want to move SVN to Linux in order to get away from > the Windows problems. > So once I have the SVN repository, how can I move it over to Linux? > Is there some preferred method?
If your repository isn't being used, just (recursively) copy the repository directory. The storage format and configuration files are platform-independent, but of course any hook scripts you have are not. -- Brane
