On 9/2/05, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
Jeff Garland wrote:
Take as example the biggest project ever switched to Subversion -- KDE. There were no real problems after the switch. As user interface of Subversion is almost the same as in CVS.
So what, how much effort went into the run-up to the switchover?
Quite some, but most of that effort was spent to speeding up the coversion process, and cleaning up branches.
For Boost, this should be not a problem, due to much smaller repository and smaller number of branches and simpler branch structure.
And I would recommend against cleaning up any branches based on my experience with cvs2svn. It can become confused by the deletion of tags (and possibly old branch revisions - not sure) and will end up generating a too-large Subversion repository as a result (10:1 size increase in my pathological case). It is better to leave everything in there, and remove unwanted branches/tags from the converted Subversion repository ex post facto. -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com