Shouting Into Space - SCM

Moving from CVS to SVN - Jumping Off

nospam@example.com (Latcarf) — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:35:57 -0800

I work as a Software Configuration Management (SCM) Engineer at a fairly large company who just happens to make a couple of widely used applications for Macintosh. As the person who is responsible for the source code repository (among many other things), I am burdened with providing the developers tools to increase their productivity and efficiency.

To that end, we have decided that we might want to make the move from CVS to Subversion. In other blog entries, I will chronicle the pilot and eventual move and detail what I experienced during the process.

I am using Making the Jump to Subversion as the "jumping off" point to switch to Subversion.

The following is a short synopsis of that article:

Making the Jump to Subversion by Adam Swift -- Subversion can run standalone or on a network as a repository server with multiple clients. The preferred client/server configuration uses Apache and WebDAV for network communication. It's a powerful alternative to CVS, and Adam Swift shows you the ins and outs in this tutorial.

We'll see how it goes!

Moving from CVS to SVN - Swimming Around

nospam@example.com (Latcarf) — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:59:19 -0800

It's become time again for me to revisit my organization's desire to move from CVS to Subversion. I've gotten out a few releases of our products recently and with that work out of the way, I'm getting back to swimming around in Subversion.

This is the third installment in my ongoing detail of the move to Subversion. In the first installment of this series, I spoke about my organization's interest in using Subversion instead of CVS. In the second installment, I detailed how I installed Subversion on Mac OS X (Panther) and how I initiated the process of converting some of our CVS repositories. In this installment, I will go into further detail about interacting with the "mock" Subversion server and the pilot project repositories.

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Moving from CVS to SVN - Diving In

nospam@example.com (Latcarf) — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:22:00 -0800

I started the process to convert our organization's CVS repository to Subversion. I decided to do a mock implementation as my "pilot". I took the CVS repository and made a copy to another machine (Mac OS X 10.3.7) which serves as the "mock" Subversion server.

Our current CVS repository consists of two "major" projects and 26 small projects (support pieces, tools, scripts, etc). I decided to try to convert one of the major projects to start with.

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