Re: The nitty-gritty of migrating to SVN

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

Hi Clytie,

You must've missed the other announcement I made recently - we've had to
postpone the migration for now.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2006-March/msg00025.html

Sorry about the confusion. I'll also answer your other questions in-line
below...

On à., 2006-03-17 at 22:34 +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> Hello all :)
> 
> Well, today's the day, in my timezone (UTC + 1030), anyway. (If I'm a  
> bit early, that gets my questions in in time. ;) )
> 
> We're migrating the repository, including all our translation files,  
> to SVN.
> 
> But what does this mean, in practice?
> 
> I can't find the original info. page about this in the Gnome wiki,  
> searching by "CVS" or "SVN", so sorry if I'm asking questions about  
> things that have been answered somewhere else.
> 

http://live.gnome.org/Subversion

> In practice, I have a CVS working copy on my computer. What do I do?
> 
> Do I need to checkout the whole working copy again, but this time  
> using SVN?
> 

Yes. Fresh checkout. At least, I don't know of any other way.

> Or is there some shortcut I can use to migrate my working copy?
> 
> I've copied this mail to cvsmaster, who may have become svnmaster,  
> but is probably still answering to that address. ;)
> 

Both addresses currently work and direct requests to a request tracker
queue for CVS/Subversion issues.

> Thankyou very much for any help with this. :)  I want to do it right.

So do I. We're just waiting for the base packages (in particular,
python) on the GNOME CVS server to be upgraded then we can continue.
Unfortunately, we still don't know when this is likely to happen.

Regards,

--
Ross