On Sat, 20 Jan 2018 13:19:26 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I suspect you can simplify the whole situation a great deal by moving >at least this project to its own Subversion repository. You should be >able to to at least test and debug ideas by doing a cvs2svn of just >that project and trying out ideas. And you can import that into a >local working Subversion repository, rather than touching the primary >repository at all. > I am leaning toward a completely different approach now concerning the PC (Windows) software development repository: 1) I leave the CVS server running but I confgure it as read-only. This makes it possible for people to export older stuff if needed. 2) I export trunk of the projects that need to be worked on from CVS 3) I start over with an empty SVN repository and import the exported projects into SVN, so they are the first revision there. This way svn will be a smaller size and the content should be OK since the projects are not *converted* from CVS but imported as regular normal projects. We also use CVS (and now SVN) as a store for drawings and printed circuit board projects (PCB). We are using an engineering repository for these but I found that the converted structure is less than optimal when using SVN because of the tags and branches directories. In CVS we have a subdirectory for drawing sources (DWG) and another for PDF versions (PDF) and also a subdirectory for the boards (PCB). Like this: REPO |-DWG |-PDF |-PCB |-and a few more that do not have sub-containers These subdirectories were treated as "projects" during conversion, which has led to a problem since there is now only one tags, trunk and brances dir for ALL of the drawings and another set for all PCB:s etc. So when I looked at the converted repository there is a total mess in the tags directory because we have used tag names like Rev_A, Rev_B etc for almost all PCB:s and now these are merged and contains an assortment of different unrelated projects... In CVS the tag was a property of any given *file* but in SVN it is on a whole directory, or really not even this... It is just a copy of the directory with a different name, not a property of the directory... Seems like I have to scrap the conversion also for Engineering and do something else, but what? Separate repositories for drawings, PDF releases and PCB:s maybe? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden
