[h323plus] Repository conversion

Jan Willamowius jan at willamowius.de
Thu Nov 14 09:23:40 EST 2013


Hi,

personally, I don't really see much gain in a conversion to SVN.

For a fresh project I'd probably use something modern like git, but
for H323Plus (and GnuGk) I don't think the conversion is with the
effort.

Just my 5 cents,
Jan

-- 
Jan Willamowius, jan at willamowius.de, http://www.gnugk.org/

Francisco Olarte wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> 
> After getting frustated with MY inability to view 'changesets' in the
> CVS repository for h323plus I decided to give cvs2svn a try, just to
> see how it came out.
> 
> I've done a rsync dump of the 59Mb cvs repo at sourceforce and did a
> plain 'cvs2svn --encoding=latin_1', which seems seems to came out
> nicely. I can to be comming out nicely, it generated a trunk, a
> pboolean branch and several tags:
> 
> ~/conv$ svn list file:///home/folarte/conv/h323plus-svn/branches
> pboolean/
> ~/conv$ svn list file:///home/folarte/conv/h323plus-svn/tags
> plus_1_20/
> v04/
> v1_19_5/
> v1_19_6/
> v1_19_7/
> v1_20_0/
> v1_20_1/
> v1_20_2/
> v1_21_0/
> v1_22_0/
> v1_23/
> v1_24_0/
> v1_25_0/
> ~/conv$ svn list file:///home/folarte/conv/h323plus-svn/trunk
> CVSROOT/
> applications/
> extensions/
> h323plus/
> 
> As it is it serves my needs ( helping me see related files for
> backporting things into releases, and given the time it took I can
> ), but, as I think developers must be somehow familiar with
> subversion, ( as ptlib and lots of other projects use it )  I wonder
> if someone will be interested in converting the main repo. In this
> case I can try to build and tune a conversion script for better
> processing of things like the CVSROOT scripts and build a svn dump
> which could be tested and, if desired, imported.
> 
> Francisco Olarte
> 




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