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