Re: [avr-libc-dev] Re: avr-libc 1.6.8 [was: duplicating avr-libcfromwinavr]

[David Brown]

Weddington, Eric wrote:
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> > On Behalf Of David Brown Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:12 PM 
> > To: address@hidden Subject: [avr-libc-dev] Re: avr-libc
> > 1.6.8 [was: duplicating avr-libcfromwinavr]
> >
> >
> > Incidentally, is there a reason why avr-libc is hosted with CVS
> > rather than Subversion?
>
> Age of the project. We have logs going back to 1999. I suppose that
> we could migrate to SVN. Joerg would probably have to do most of the
> heavy lifting to move it over. Again, resource issue. Would you be
> willing to help out? <hint, hint> ;-)

I've never done such a conversion, having never run a CVS server (only 
subversion servers).  But it is apparently quite easy if you are not too 
bothered by the layout you get in your svn repository.  There is a FAQ 
on the savannah web site:

<http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/CvSToSvN>

I think the key point is whether the key avr-libc developers /want/ to 
move to subversion, and want to think about how they would organise the 
subversion tree structure - that's probably more effort than the 
mechanics of the conversion itself, which is fairly automated.