1 Version 2.4.0 (22 September 2012)
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5 * Store CVS file descriptions in a Subversion property "cvs:description".
6 * SVN: Optionally include empty directories from the CVS repository.
7 * Much faster cvs2git conversions possible via --use-external-blob-generator.
8 * Use file properties for more flexibility over keyword and EOL handling.
9 * Add a ConditionalPropertySetter.
10 * Allow CVS repository paths to be excluded from the conversion.
11 * Normalize EOLs in CVS log messages to LF.
12 * Ignore vendor branch declarations that refer to non-existent branches.
15 * Issue #31: cvs2svn does not convert empty directories.
16 * Issue #127: Dead "file X added on branch Y" revisions not always dropped.
17 * Fix --dry-run for cvs2git and cvs2bzr.
19 Improvements and output changes:
20 * More aggressively omit unnecessary dead revisions.
21 * Consider it a failure if "cvs" or "co" writes something to stderr.
22 * Add concept of "file properties", which are only computed once per file.
23 * Refuse to accept a default branch that is not a top-level branch.
24 * Make check of illegal filename characters dependent on the target VCS.
25 * Improve error reporting for invalid date strings in CVS.
26 * Many documentation improvements.
27 * Allow grafting a branch onto a parent that has itself been grafted.
28 * Slightly improve choice of parent branch for vendor branches.
29 * Only import "database" if used, to avoid error if no DB module installed.
30 * Ignore newphrases in RCS files more robustly.
31 * Fix the expansion of the $Source$ keyword for Attic files.
32 * Various other minor improvements and fixes.
35 * Sort large files using Python to avoid dependency on GNU sort.
38 Version 2.3.0 (22 August 2009)
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42 * Add a "cvs2git" script for starting conversions to git (or Mercurial).
43 * Add a "cvs2bzr" script for starting conversions to Bazaar.
44 * Generate manual pages automatically via new --man option.
45 * Allow --mime-types and --auto-props options to be specified more than once.
46 * Support author transforms when converting to Subversion.
47 * Allow unlabeled branches to be renamed using SymbolTransforms.
50 * cvs2git with non-inline blobs: a revision after a delete could be empty.
51 * Fix timezone handling under Windows (which does not respect TZ variable).
52 * Do path comparisions platform-independently in symbol transform classes.
53 * Fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/pld-linux/+bug/385920
55 Improvements and output changes:
56 * Output error message if a revision's deltatext is missing.
57 * Improve contrib/verify-cvs2svn.py (used for testing conversion accuracy).
60 * Add an IgnoreSymbolTransform class, for ignoring symbols matching a regexp.
61 * Remove some DeprecationWarnings when running under newer Python versions.
64 Version 2.2.0 (23 November 2008)
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68 * cvs2git: Omit fixup branch if a tag can be copied from an existing revision.
69 * cvs2git: Add option to set the maximum number of merge sources per commit.
70 * Allow arbitrary SVN directories to be created when a project is created.
71 * Allow vendor branches to be excluded, grafting child symbols to trunk.
72 * By default, omit trivial import branches from conversion.
73 - Add --keep-trivial-imports option to get old behavior.
74 * By default, don't include .cvsignore files in output (except as svn:ignore).
75 - Add option --keep-cvsignore to get the old behavior.
76 * Allow the user to specify the form of cvs2svn-generated log messages.
77 * Allow file contents to be written inline in git-fast-import streams.
78 * --create-option: allow arbitrary options to be passed to "svnadmin create".
79 * Improve handling of auto-props file:
80 - Discard extraneous spaces where they don't make sense.
81 - Warn if parts of the file might be commented out unintentionally.
82 - Warn if the user appears to be trying to quote a property value.
85 * Fix issue #81: Remove svn:ignore property when .cvsignore is deleted.
86 * Fix svn dumpfile conformance:
87 - Don't include a leading '/' for Node-path.
88 - Include the Node-kind field when copying nodes.
89 * Make symlink test create symlinks explicitly, to avoid packaging problems.
90 * Accept symbol references to revision numbers that end with ".0".
92 Improvements and output changes:
93 * When -v, log reasons for symbol conversion choices (tag/branch/exclude).
94 * Log preferred parent determinations at verbose (rather than debug) level.
95 * Log symbol transformations at verbose (rather than warn) level.
96 * Log statistics about all symbol transformations at normal level.
97 * cvs2git: Generate lightweight rather than annotated tags.
98 * contrib/destroy_repository.py:
99 - Allow symbols, files, and directories to be renamed.
100 - Allow CVSROOT directory contents to be erased.
101 - Specify what aspects of a repo to destroy via command-line options.
104 * cvs2svn now requires Python version 2.4 or later.
107 Version 2.1.1 (15 April 2008)
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111 * Make files that are to be sorted more text-like to fix problem on Windows.
112 * Fix comment in header of --write-symbol-info output file.
115 * Adjust test suite for upstream changes in the svntest code.
118 Version 2.1.0 (19 February 2008)
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122 * Allow conversion of a CVS repository to git (experimental).
123 - Support mapping from cvs author names to git "Author <email>" form.
124 * Enhance symbol transform capabilities:
125 - Add SymbolMapper, for transforming specific symbols in specific files.
126 - Allow SymbolTransforms to cause a symbol to be discarded.
127 * Enhance symbol strategy capabilities:
128 - Write each CVS branch/tag to be written to an arbitrary SVN path.
129 - Choose which trunk/branch should serve as the parent of each branch/tag.
130 - --symbol-hints: manually specify how symbols should be converted.
131 - Make symbol strategy rules project-specific.
132 * --write-symbol-info: output info about CVS symbols.
133 * Add option ctx.decode_apple_single for handling AppleSingle-encoded files.
134 * Add a new, restartable pass that converts author and log_msg to Unicode.
135 * Allow properties to be left unset via auto-props using a leading '!'.
138 * Fix issue #80: Empty CVS,v file not accepted.
139 * Fix issue #108: Create project TTB directories "just-in-time".
140 * Fix issue #112: Random test failures with Python 2.5.
141 * Fix issue #115: crash - Bad file descriptor.
142 * Fix the translation of line-end characters for eol-styles CR and CRLF.
144 Improvements and output changes:
145 * Create trunk/tags/branches directories for project when project is created.
146 * Improved conversion speed significantly, especially for large repositories.
147 * Ignore (with a warning) symbols defined to malformed revision numbers.
148 * Tolerate multiple definitions of a symbol to the same revision number.
149 * Handle RCS files that superfluously set the default branch to trunk.
150 * Allow '/' characters in CVS symbol names (creating multilevel SVN paths).
151 * Allow symbols to be transformed to contain '/' (allowing multilevel paths).
152 * Convert '\' characters to '/' (rather than '--') in symbol names.
153 * Make encoding problems fatal; to resolve, restart at CleanMetadataPass.
156 * Change the default symbol handling option to --symbol-default=heuristic.
159 Version 2.0.1 (04 October 2007)
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163 * Fix problem with keyword expansion when using --use-internal-co.
166 Version 2.0.0 (15 August 2007)
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170 * Add --use-internal-co to speed conversions, and make it the default.
171 * Add --retain-conflicting-attic-files option.
172 * Add --no-cross-branch-commits option.
173 * Add --default-eol option and deprecate --no-default-eol.
174 * RevisionRecorder hook allows file text/deltas to be recorded in pass 1.
175 * RevisionReader hook allow file text to be retrieved from RevisionRecorder.
176 * Slightly changed the order that properties are set, for more flexibility.
177 * Don't set svn:keywords on files for which svn:eol-style is not set.
178 * Implement issue #53: Allow --trunk='' for --trunk-only conversions.
181 * Fix issue #97: Follow symlinks within CVS repository.
182 * Fix issue #99: cvs2svn tries to create a file twice.
183 * Fix issue #100: cvs2svn doesn't retrieve the right version.
184 * Fix issue #105: Conflict between directory and Attic file causes crash.
185 * Fix issue #106: SVNRepositoryMirrorParentMissingError.
186 * Fix missing command-line handling of --fallback-encoding option.
187 * Fix issue #85: Disable symbol sanity checks when in --trunk-only mode.
189 Improvements and output changes:
190 * Analyze CVS revision dependency graph, giving a more robust conversion.
191 * Improve choice of symbol parents when CVS history is ambiguous.
192 * In the case of clock skew to the past, resync forwards, not backwards.
193 * Treat timestamps that lie in the future as bogus, and adjust backwards.
194 * Gracefully handle tags that refer to nonexistent revisions.
195 * Check and fail if revision header appears multiple times.
196 * Gracefully handle multiple deltatext blocks for same revision.
197 * Be more careful about only processing reasonable *,v files.
198 * Improve checks for illegal filenames.
199 * Check if a directory name conflicts with a filename.
200 * When file is imported, omit the empty revision 1.1.
201 * If a non-trunk default branch is excluded, graft its contents to trunk.
202 * Omit the initial 'dead' revision when a file is added on a branch.
203 * Require --symbol-transform pattern to match entire symbol name.
204 * Treat files as binary by default instead of as text, because it is safer.
205 * Treat auto-props case-insensitively; deprecate --auto-props-ignore-case.
208 * Add a simple (nonportable) script to log cvs2svn memory usage.
209 * Allow contrib/shrink_test_case.py script to try deleting tags and branches.
210 * Add --skip-initial-test option to contrib/shrink_test_case.py script.
213 Version 1.5.1 (28 January 2007)
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217 * Add missing import in cvs2svn_lib/process.py.
218 * Fix omission of parsing of the --fallback-encoding option.
221 Version 1.5.0 (03 October 2006)
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225 * Support multiproject conversions (each gets its own trunk, tags, branches).
226 * New --options option to allow run-time options to be defined via a file.
227 * --co, --cvs, and --sort options to specify the paths to executables.
228 * Add new --fallback-encoding option.
231 * Fix issue #86: Support multiple project roots per repository.
232 * Fix issue #104: Allow path to "sort" executable to be specified.
233 * Fix issue #8: Allow multiple --encoding options.
234 * Fix issue #109: Improve handling of fallback encodings.
236 Improvements and output changes:
237 * Further reduce conversion time and temporary space requirements.
240 * Deprecate the --dump-only option (it is now implied by --dumpfile).
241 * Add scripts to help isolate conversion problems and shrink test cases.
242 * Add a script to search for illegal filenames in a CVS repository.
245 Version 1.4.0 (27 August 2006)
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249 * Support multicomponent --trunk, --tags, and --branches paths (issue #7).
250 * New --auto-props option allows file properties to be set via file.
251 * --force-branch and --force-tag options now accept regular expressions.
252 * Add --symbol-default option.
253 * Support multiple, ordered --encoding options.
256 * Fix issue #93: Tags with forbidden characters converted to branches.
257 * Fix issue #102: Branch file, deleted in CVS, is present in SVN.
259 Improvements and output changes:
260 * Print informative warning message if a required program is missing.
261 * Output an error if any CVS filenames contain control characters.
262 * Clean up temporary files even for pass-by-pass conversions.
263 * Improve handling of commit dependencies and multibranch commits.
264 * Implemented issue #50 (performance change).
265 * Reduced the amount of temporary disk space needed during the conversion.
268 * cvs2svn now requires Python version 2.2 or later.
269 * cvs2svn has been broken up into many smaller python modules for clarity.
272 Version 1.3.1 (24 May 2006)
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276 * Fix issue #67: malfunction caused by RCS branches rooted at revision 1.0.
279 Version 1.3.0 (18 August 2005)
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283 * Fix cvs2svn's dumpfile output to work after Subversion's r12645.
284 * Fix issue #71: Avoid resyncing two consecutive CVS revs to same time.
285 * Fix issue #88: Don't allow resyncing to throw off CVS revision order.
286 * Fix issue #89: Handle initially dead branch revisions acceptably.
287 * Fix some branch-filling bugs (r1429, r1444).
289 Improvements and output changes:
290 * Better --encoding support when iconv_codec module is available.
291 * Speedups to pass8 (r1421)
292 * Use standard "rNNN" syntax when printing Subversion revisions.
295 Version 1.2.1 (14 February 2005)
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299 * Fix cvs2svn's dumpfile output to work after Subversion's r12645.
302 Version 1.2.0 (11 January 2005)
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306 * --fs-type=TYPE: make it possible to specify the filesystem type.
309 * Convert files with svn:eol-style to have LF end of lines only.
310 * Fix hang in pass 8 for files that ended with a CR.
311 * Import unexpanded keywords into the repository.
312 * Fix the handling of the $Revision$ keyword.
313 * Fix bug in branch/tag creation edge case.
316 Version 1.1.0 (15 September 2004)
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320 * --symbol-transform: change tag and branch names using regular expressions.
321 * Flush log after writing, for better feedback when using 'tee'.
324 * Issue 74: No longer attempt to change non-existent files.
325 * Allow the Subversion repository created to have spaces in its name.
326 * Avoid erroring when using a svnadmin that uses FSFS by default.
329 Version 1.0.0 (25 August 2004)
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332 * The cvs2svn project comes of age.