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