A few weeks ago I migrated our CVS repositories to SVN using the latest version of cvs2svn. The CVS server was on a Windows 2003 server and the new VisualSVN server on a Windows 2016 Server. I did the cvs2svn conversion on a Ubuntu server to which I had copied the CVS repositories. Then I imported the dump files on Windows 2016 via the VisualSVN GUI commands.
It all looked like it was a success except for the handling of file properties. Files marked binary in CVS are not marked as such in SVN so I worry that they may become corrupted in the future. But it seems like it does work OK. Today I discovered a different issue that is more serious in nature: In some projects there have been non-US characters used for file and folder names like "Bygglovsansökan", "HÅL I TAKKASSETT" etc. When I check out these projects from SVN the Swedish characters in the names are now replaced by a series of high characters (hex view): Å = C3 90 C2 9F Ä = C3 90 C2 9E Ö = -- did not find this character in svn yet -- å = C3 90 C2 96 ä = C3 90 C2 94 ö = C3 90 C2 A4 I don't know from where this problem originates, either it is a flaw in the cvs2svn script, the configuration of the conversion or in the format of the generated dump files. Otherwise it may be a problem when importing the dump files into the VisualSVN server.... What could I do to fix this? (And please note that the new repository is in use so there are a number of commits done since the migration...) -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden
