On 13.12.2017 15:33, Bo Berglund wrote: > While investigating the methods to use when migrating our CVS > repositories from CVS to SVN I converted one of the smaller CVS > respositories to an svn dump file using cvs2svn 2.5.0 on an Ubuntu > Server 16.04.3 machine. > > Then I moved the dump file over to the target Windows 2016 Server > where I had just installed VisualSVN and tried to use the VisualSVN > GUI tool to load the dump into a new repository. But it threw an error > box displaying: > "Could not convert ' 2' into a number" > > Next I tried to load it from the command line: > > svnadmin load \SVNREPOS\bosse < bosse-dump > ' into a number04: Could not convert ' 2 > > Strange output and it stopped. Same basic error... > > Then I went back to the Ubuntu machine and loaded the dump file into > svn there and it worked just fine. > > So I made a dump from the newly loaded repository on Ubuntu and went > back to Windows 2016 and repeated the load command with the new dump > file. > This time it worked without errors! > > So my question is: > Is the dump file format from cvs2svn platform dependent such that it > will not work if moved from Linux to load it on Windows?
It should be. If it's not, then it's not a Subversion dump file and there's a bug in cvs2svn. -- Brane
