[cvsnt] Re: cvsnt Digest, Vol 42, Issue 13

[Zlatko Arifhodzic]

>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm currently in the process of investigating how we might migrate our
>CVSNT repository (currently on an Windows Server machine) to Subversion
>or some other RCS. So far I've not had any luck at all running the usual
>Subversion conversion scripts, such as cvs2svn and refinecvs, both of
>which fail in their unique and individual ways. One of the main issues
>I've hit is that the actual RCS files (,v) in many cases just don't seem
>valid to the various scripts, so the conversion aborts or lots of files
>simply don't get migrated.
>
>Has anyone successfully migrated from CVSNT? What other revision control
>systems can import repositories from CVSNT?
>  
>
Hello,

I've sucessfuly imported a CVSNT repository to subversion for
benchmarking purposes ( I'm not very happy with cvsnt :) ).

I used the cvs2svn script, all took place on a Linux server. The import
process was quite long to set up ( 1 week of troubleshootong and fine
tuning, and finaly 1 weekend of processing ) but it did work.

I had no critical problems with cvs2svn, other that my misuderstanding
of all possible options. For instance, you realy need to correctly
specify the locale your cvsnt is set to, and to pass the cvs parsing
option --use-cvs as the script uses rcs parsing per default !

All of this makes the processing much longer, but it finally ended with
success. I'd like to ask you about the the problems you encounterd
however it seems to me that this is a little bit off topic for this
maling list.

For other scm tools, I know about Perforce, wich is a fine piece of
software providing importation scripts from cvs, however perforce is not
free like svn.

-Z-


>Many thanks,
>Chris
>
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>Message: 9
>Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 17:14:41 +0200
>From: feymard at stago.fr
>Subject: [cvsnt] restricting tags privileges
>To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org, cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org
>Message-ID:
>	<OF852561FA.6EC31DE5-ONC1257185.00531F34-C1257185.0053AA85 at Stago.fr>
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>hi,
>
>Do you know if it is possible to limit acces some functions on tags like:
>- all users can create a tag
>- only administrators can move or delete a tag, and create a rtag
>?
>Chacl can answers to the second point, but, if I use this command, I will
>loose the capability for all to create a tag...
>
>Best regards,
>--
>Franck-Sébastien Eymard
>
>
>
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>Message: 10
>Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 09:31:49 -0600 
>From: "Lehman, Curtis" <CLehman at carrieraccess.com>
>Subject: RE: [cvsnt] restricting tags privileges
>To: "'feymard at stago.fr'" <feymard at stago.fr>, cvsnt at cvsnt.org,
>	cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org
>Message-ID:
>	<52AB1243526C77459939EBB7976B622F047A56BE at newman.carrieraccess.com>
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>
>We have created such limitation our CVS server by creating a pearl script
>that enforces such requirements. The pearl script is called from the taginfo
>file. My pearl script looks something like:
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>
>use strict;
>
>my $i;
>my ($user,$tag,$function) = @ARGV;
>
>if ($function eq "del")
>{
>    if( ($user eq 'clehman') || ($user eq 'bruedy') || ($user eq
>'AKulkarni'))
>    {
>        print "ok $user, you can delete tags\n";
>        exit 0;
>    }
>    print "$user can't delete tags.\nContact Bill Ruedy to remove tag
>$tag\n";
>    exit 1;
>}
>
>if ($tag =~ /\AT_.*/)
>{
>    exit 0;
>}
>if ($tag =~ /\ABR_.*/)
>{
>    exit 0;
>}
>
>print "All Tag names must begin with a T_  and branches begin with BR_\n";
>exit 1;
>
>I have been meaning to add some code to force user names passed in to all
>lower case. I have had some problems with case sensitivity and differences
>between clients on Linux and windows systems. Hope this helps.
>
>- Curt Lehman
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: feymard at stago.fr [mailto:feymard at stago.fr] 
>Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:15 AM
>To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org; cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org
>Subject: [cvsnt] restricting tags privileges
>
>hi,
>
>Do you know if it is possible to limit acces some functions on tags like:
>- all users can create a tag
>- only administrators can move or delete a tag, and create a rtag ?
>Chacl can answers to the second point, but, if I use this command, I will
>loose the capability for all to create a tag...
>
>Best regards,
>--
>Franck-Sébastien Eymard
>
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