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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion
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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

by Mike Mason
November 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
150 pages
2h 55m
English
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37Migrating a CVS Repository

If you are using CVS for version control and want to upgrade to Subversion, you can do so quite easily. Subversion is designed to be a drop-in replacement for CVS; it will run on the same hardware and has a user interface similar to CVS. Subversion includes a tool called cvs2svn that allows you to convert an existing CVS repository to a Subversion repository. The tool preserves all your files, tags, branches, and history, making the upgrade pretty seamless.

Converting from a CVS repository works best on a real Unix system, so we’ve only included instructions for Ubuntu Linux. If you’re in a real pinch, you can also try the conversion using Cygwin[15] on Windows, but we really don’t recommend it. Borrow an account ...

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