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HOWTO migrate from RCS to SVN

After a bit of stumbling around and getting confused using 2 versions of subversion, here is how I finally imported our entire RCS repository into Subversion from CollabNet.

Prelude: I installed the RPMs from CollabNet as indicated in their readme and used the wizard to config 2 repository. Only thing I added, was to make all the repositories in /var/svn/repositories writable by the group csvn: chmod g+w /var/svn/repositories/*. That way the web server's user/group csvn:csvn can read and write in there.

[root@server repositories]# ls -l
total 12
drwxrwxr-x  7 csvn csvn 4096 Jun 18 17:54 repo1
drwxrwxr-x  7 csvn csvn 4096 Jun 18 17:54 repo2
[root@server repositories]# which svnadmin
/opt/CollabNet_Subversion/bin/svnadmin
[root@server repositories]# which cvs2svn
/usr/bin/cvs2svn
[root@server repositories]# cd
[root@server ~]#cvs2svn -s /var/svn/repositories/io_se/ --use-rcs --default-eol=native RCS/
----- pass 1 (CollectRevsPass) -----
Examining all CVS ',v' files...
RCS/largedb.sql,v
RCS/as10.1.3.1.0_mtj2ee_1013.rsp,v
RCS/as10.1.3.1.0_mtsoa_j2eeweb.rsp,v
RCS/as_add_initd.sh,v
[schnipp]
Starting Subversion r512 / 514
Starting Subversion r513 / 514
Starting Subversion r514 / 514
Done.
Time for pass16 (OutputPass): 17.40 seconds.

cvs2svn Statistics:
------------------
Total CVS Files:               265
Total CVS Revisions:           758
Total CVS Branches:              1
Total CVS Tags:                 11
Total Unique Tags:               1
Total Unique Branches:           1
CVS Repos Size in KB:         1415
Total SVN Commits:             514
First Revision Date:    Thu Jun 28 10:11:33 2007
Last Revision Date:     Thu Jun 19 10:17:36 2008
------------------
Timings (seconds):
------------------
 0.90   pass1    CollectRevsPass
 0.06   pass2    CleanMetadataPass
 0.01   pass3    CollateSymbolsPass
 0.15   pass4    FilterSymbolsPass
 0.03   pass5    SortRevisionSummaryPass
 0.04   pass6    SortSymbolSummaryPass
 0.19   pass7    InitializeChangesetsPass
 0.37   pass8    BreakRevisionChangesetCyclesPass
 0.41   pass9    RevisionTopologicalSortPass
 0.08   pass10   BreakSymbolChangesetCyclesPass
 0.30   pass11   BreakAllChangesetCyclesPass
 0.19   pass12   TopologicalSortPass
 0.49   pass13   CreateRevsPass
 0.02   pass14   SortSymbolsPass
 0.01   pass15   IndexSymbolsPass
17.40   pass16   OutputPass
20.67   total
[root@server ~]#


I now did a dump, just to have an easy dump file that I can reuse, in case something bad happens and I need a fresh backup.
[root@l0762 repositories]#cvs2svn --dumpfile=rcs-import.svn --use-rcs RCS/
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