The Quick and Easy Guide to moving your project from CVS to Subversion
Posted by Simon on March 05, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Categories: unix, code
So you want to use SVN? Fine, it's easy to move a project from one to the other.
Get cvs2svn
Go to a checked out copy of your cvs project and run cvs admin -kb filename on any binary files.
Commit to CVS.
Assuming that you've got a simple CVS project with no branches that you want to keep, do this:
./cvs2svn-1.5.1/cvs2svn —trunk-only -s project-name /path/to/cvsrepository/project-name mv project-name /path/to/svnrepository/