cvs2svn - convert a cvs repository into a subversion repository

cvs2svn [OPTION]... -s svn-repos-path cvs-repos-path

cvs2svn [OPTION]... --dump-only cvs-repos-path

Create a new Subversion repository based on the version history stored in a CVS repository. Each CVS commit will be mirrored in the Subversion repository, including such information as date of commit and id of the committer.

--help, -h

Print out usage message and exit with success.

--version

Print the version number.

-q

Quiet, print less information while running.

-v

Verbose, print more information while running.

-s=path

Load CVS repository into the Subversion repository located at PATH. If there is no Subversion repository at path, create a new one.

-p start[:end]

Start the program at pass start and stop it at pass stop, both may range from 1 (the default) to 8. For this to work the earlier passes must have been completed before on the same CVS repository, and the generated data files must be in the current directory. Also, stop can be omitted, in this case only the pass specified in start will be executed.

--existing-svnrepos

Load into existing SVN repository, instead of creating one. Please note that you must own the repository, or at least be in the group which owns it, and have group writeable files/directories.

--dump-only

Just produce a dumpfile, don't commit to a repos.

--dumpfile=path

Set the path and optionaly name of the dumpfile. The default is cvs2svn-dump in the current directory.

--tmpdir=path

Set the path to use for temporary data. Default is the current directory.

--profile

Profile with 'hotshot' (into file cvs2svn.hotshot).

--dry-run

Do not create a repository or a dumpfile; just print the details of what cvs2svn would do if it were really converting your repository.

--use-cvs

Use CVS instead of RCS 'co' to extract data (only use this if having problems with RCS, as CVS is much slower).

--svnadmin=path

Path to the the svnadmin program.

--trunk-only

Convert only trunk commits, not tags nor branches.

--trunk=path

Put the trunk (main branch) into the subdirectory path of the Subversion repository (default is trunk).

--branches=path

Put branch copies under the subdirectory path of the Subversion repository (default is branches).

--tags=path

Put tag copies under the subdirectory path of the Subversion repository (default is tags).

--no-prune

When all files are deleted from a directory in the Subversion repository, don't delete the empty directory (the default is to delete any empty directories.

--encoding=encoding

Set encoding of log messages in CVS repos (default is ascii).

--force-branch=name

Force name to be a branch.

--force-tag=name

Force name to be a tag.

--exclude=regexp

Exclude branches and tags matching regexp.

--symbol-transform=P:S

Transform symbol names from P to S where P and S use Python regexp and reference syntax respectively. You may specify any number of these options; they will be applied left to right in the order given on the command line.

This option can be useful if you're converting a repository in which the developer used directory-wide symbol names like 1_0, 1_1 and 2_1 as a kludgy form of release tagging (the C-x v s command in Emacs VC mode encourages this practice).

--username=name

Set the default username to name when cvs2svn doesn't have a username from the CVS repository to work with. This happens when a branch or tag is created. The default name is "unknown".

--skip-cleanup

Prevent the deletion of intermediate files.

--bdb-txn-nosync

Pass --bdb-txn-nosync to "svnadmin create".

--fs-type

Pass --fs-type=type to "svnadmin create".

--cvs-revnums

Record CVS revision numbers as file properties.

--mime-types=file

Specify an apache-style mime.types file for setting svn:mime-type . On Debian GNU/Linux systems, you can have one at /etc/mime.types by installing the mime-support package.

--eol-from-mime-type

Set svn:eol-style by mime type (only with --mime-types).

--no-default-eol

Don't set svn:eol-style by CVS defaults.

--keywords-off

Don't set svn:keywords on any files (cvs2svn sets svn:keywords to "author date id" on non-binary files by default).

The current directory is used as scratch space for data files of the form cvs2svn-data.* and a dumpfile named cvs2svn-dump.

Main authors are:

C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>

Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>

Branko ÄŒibej <brane@xbc.nu>

Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>

Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net>

Brian Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com>

Tobias Ringström <tobias@ringstrom.mine.nu>

Karl Fogel <kfogel@collab.net>

Erik Hülsmann <e.huelsmann@gmx.net>

David Summers <david@summersoft.fay.ar.us>

Manpage was written for the Debian GNU/Linux system by Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi <gcs@lsc.hu> (but may be used by others).

cvs(1), svn(1), svnadmin(1)