[Nut-upsdev] Important: CVS Freeze

[Charles Lepple]

On 2/15/06, Peter Selinger <selinger at mathstat.dal.ca> wrote:
> It might even be a good idea to switch the CVS repository to "read
> only" before the migration. -- Peter

Good call. I haven't tested it, but it should prevent accidental commits.

I am opening the ticket with Alioth to ask them to import the SVN dump
file. I'll keep you all posted.

> Charles Lepple wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > in order to transition to SVN, I would like to call for a CVS freeze
> > starting in about 24 hours. Hopefully the SVN import will happen
> > quickly (2-3 days, depending on how busy Alioth admins are) but in
> > order to not lose any changes, it would be best to not commit anything
> > to CVS after I make the final snapshot of the repository.
> >
> > You can still make changes in your CVS working copy, but you will then
> > have to do a 'cvs diff' and patch the newly-checked-out SVN working
> > copy (since it is a bit difficult to convert a CVS working copy to SVN
> > - the migration is on the repository side).
> >
> > If you have any big changes to check in, let me know - I'm flexible,
> > but I would like to kick this off soon.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > --
> > - Charles Lepple
> >
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- Charles Lepple