7 Improvements and output changes:
14 Version 2.5.0 (26 November 2017)
15 --------------------------------
18 * Handle non-ASCII, non-UTF8 filenames in .cvsignore files.
19 * ExternalBlobGenerator: Don't fail if no revisions are needed for a file.
20 * Fix the handling of symbol-matching regexps that include "|".
21 * Handle excluded paths under Attic directories, too.
22 * cvs2git: fix logging in process_post_commit().
23 * Prefer to break internal cycles at the *largest* timestamp gaps.
24 * Don't try to delete a supposed "revision 1.1" if it has a predecessor.
26 Improvements and output changes:
27 * Various small documentation fixes and improvements.
28 * Make cvs2xxx runnable under PyPy.
29 * Avoid some allusions to Subversion when converting to another VCS.
30 * Use tempfile.mkdtemp() to choose the location for temporary files.
31 * Write all progress information to stderr rather than stdout.
32 * Write cvs2git and cvs2bzr output to stdout by default.
33 * Improve build reproducibility by respecting $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
34 * cvs2git: don't add so much useless metadata to symbol commits.
35 * cvs2git: allow a file to be set executable in Git via "svn:executable"
38 * Use "co --version" rather than the deprecated "co -V".
41 Version 2.4.0 (22 September 2012)
42 ---------------------------------
45 * Store CVS file descriptions in a Subversion property "cvs:description".
46 * SVN: Optionally include empty directories from the CVS repository.
47 * Much faster cvs2git conversions possible via --use-external-blob-generator.
48 * Use file properties for more flexibility over keyword and EOL handling.
49 * Add a ConditionalPropertySetter.
50 * Allow CVS repository paths to be excluded from the conversion.
51 * Normalize EOLs in CVS log messages to LF.
52 * Ignore vendor branch declarations that refer to non-existent branches.
55 * Issue #31: cvs2svn does not convert empty directories.
56 * Issue #127: Dead "file X added on branch Y" revisions not always dropped.
57 * Fix --dry-run for cvs2git and cvs2bzr.
59 Improvements and output changes:
60 * More aggressively omit unnecessary dead revisions.
61 * Consider it a failure if "cvs" or "co" writes something to stderr.
62 * Add concept of "file properties", which are only computed once per file.
63 * Refuse to accept a default branch that is not a top-level branch.
64 * Make check of illegal filename characters dependent on the target VCS.
65 * Improve error reporting for invalid date strings in CVS.
66 * Many documentation improvements.
67 * Allow grafting a branch onto a parent that has itself been grafted.
68 * Slightly improve choice of parent branch for vendor branches.
69 * Only import "database" if used, to avoid error if no DB module installed.
70 * Ignore newphrases in RCS files more robustly.
71 * Fix the expansion of the $Source$ keyword for Attic files.
72 * Various other minor improvements and fixes.
75 * Sort large files using Python to avoid dependency on GNU sort.
78 Version 2.3.0 (22 August 2009)
79 ------------------------------
82 * Add a "cvs2git" script for starting conversions to git (or Mercurial).
83 * Add a "cvs2bzr" script for starting conversions to Bazaar.
84 * Generate manual pages automatically via new --man option.
85 * Allow --mime-types and --auto-props options to be specified more than once.
86 * Support author transforms when converting to Subversion.
87 * Allow unlabeled branches to be renamed using SymbolTransforms.
90 * cvs2git with non-inline blobs: a revision after a delete could be empty.
91 * Fix timezone handling under Windows (which does not respect TZ variable).
92 * Do path comparisions platform-independently in symbol transform classes.
93 * Fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/pld-linux/+bug/385920
95 Improvements and output changes:
96 * Output error message if a revision's deltatext is missing.
97 * Improve contrib/verify-cvs2svn.py (used for testing conversion accuracy).
100 * Add an IgnoreSymbolTransform class, for ignoring symbols matching a regexp.
101 * Remove some DeprecationWarnings when running under newer Python versions.
104 Version 2.2.0 (23 November 2008)
105 --------------------------------
108 * cvs2git: Omit fixup branch if a tag can be copied from an existing revision.
109 * cvs2git: Add option to set the maximum number of merge sources per commit.
110 * Allow arbitrary SVN directories to be created when a project is created.
111 * Allow vendor branches to be excluded, grafting child symbols to trunk.
112 * By default, omit trivial import branches from conversion.
113 - Add --keep-trivial-imports option to get old behavior.
114 * By default, don't include .cvsignore files in output (except as svn:ignore).
115 - Add option --keep-cvsignore to get the old behavior.
116 * Allow the user to specify the form of cvs2svn-generated log messages.
117 * Allow file contents to be written inline in git-fast-import streams.
118 * --create-option: allow arbitrary options to be passed to "svnadmin create".
119 * Improve handling of auto-props file:
120 - Discard extraneous spaces where they don't make sense.
121 - Warn if parts of the file might be commented out unintentionally.
122 - Warn if the user appears to be trying to quote a property value.
125 * Fix issue #81: Remove svn:ignore property when .cvsignore is deleted.
126 * Fix svn dumpfile conformance:
127 - Don't include a leading '/' for Node-path.
128 - Include the Node-kind field when copying nodes.
129 * Make symlink test create symlinks explicitly, to avoid packaging problems.
130 * Accept symbol references to revision numbers that end with ".0".
132 Improvements and output changes:
133 * When -v, log reasons for symbol conversion choices (tag/branch/exclude).
134 * Log preferred parent determinations at verbose (rather than debug) level.
135 * Log symbol transformations at verbose (rather than warn) level.
136 * Log statistics about all symbol transformations at normal level.
137 * cvs2git: Generate lightweight rather than annotated tags.
138 * contrib/destroy_repository.py:
139 - Allow symbols, files, and directories to be renamed.
140 - Allow CVSROOT directory contents to be erased.
141 - Specify what aspects of a repo to destroy via command-line options.
144 * cvs2svn now requires Python version 2.4 or later.
147 Version 2.1.1 (15 April 2008)
148 -----------------------------
151 * Make files that are to be sorted more text-like to fix problem on Windows.
152 * Fix comment in header of --write-symbol-info output file.
155 * Adjust test suite for upstream changes in the svntest code.
158 Version 2.1.0 (19 February 2008)
159 --------------------------------
162 * Allow conversion of a CVS repository to git (experimental).
163 - Support mapping from cvs author names to git "Author <email>" form.
164 * Enhance symbol transform capabilities:
165 - Add SymbolMapper, for transforming specific symbols in specific files.
166 - Allow SymbolTransforms to cause a symbol to be discarded.
167 * Enhance symbol strategy capabilities:
168 - Write each CVS branch/tag to be written to an arbitrary SVN path.
169 - Choose which trunk/branch should serve as the parent of each branch/tag.
170 - --symbol-hints: manually specify how symbols should be converted.
171 - Make symbol strategy rules project-specific.
172 * --write-symbol-info: output info about CVS symbols.
173 * Add option ctx.decode_apple_single for handling AppleSingle-encoded files.
174 * Add a new, restartable pass that converts author and log_msg to Unicode.
175 * Allow properties to be left unset via auto-props using a leading '!'.
178 * Fix issue #80: Empty CVS,v file not accepted.
179 * Fix issue #108: Create project TTB directories "just-in-time".
180 * Fix issue #112: Random test failures with Python 2.5.
181 * Fix issue #115: crash - Bad file descriptor.
182 * Fix the translation of line-end characters for eol-styles CR and CRLF.
184 Improvements and output changes:
185 * Create trunk/tags/branches directories for project when project is created.
186 * Improved conversion speed significantly, especially for large repositories.
187 * Ignore (with a warning) symbols defined to malformed revision numbers.
188 * Tolerate multiple definitions of a symbol to the same revision number.
189 * Handle RCS files that superfluously set the default branch to trunk.
190 * Allow '/' characters in CVS symbol names (creating multilevel SVN paths).
191 * Allow symbols to be transformed to contain '/' (allowing multilevel paths).
192 * Convert '\' characters to '/' (rather than '--') in symbol names.
193 * Make encoding problems fatal; to resolve, restart at CleanMetadataPass.
196 * Change the default symbol handling option to --symbol-default=heuristic.
199 Version 2.0.1 (04 October 2007)
200 -------------------------------
203 * Fix problem with keyword expansion when using --use-internal-co.
206 Version 2.0.0 (15 August 2007)
207 ------------------------------
210 * Add --use-internal-co to speed conversions, and make it the default.
211 * Add --retain-conflicting-attic-files option.
212 * Add --no-cross-branch-commits option.
213 * Add --default-eol option and deprecate --no-default-eol.
214 * RevisionRecorder hook allows file text/deltas to be recorded in pass 1.
215 * RevisionReader hook allow file text to be retrieved from RevisionRecorder.
216 * Slightly changed the order that properties are set, for more flexibility.
217 * Don't set svn:keywords on files for which svn:eol-style is not set.
218 * Implement issue #53: Allow --trunk='' for --trunk-only conversions.
221 * Fix issue #97: Follow symlinks within CVS repository.
222 * Fix issue #99: cvs2svn tries to create a file twice.
223 * Fix issue #100: cvs2svn doesn't retrieve the right version.
224 * Fix issue #105: Conflict between directory and Attic file causes crash.
225 * Fix issue #106: SVNRepositoryMirrorParentMissingError.
226 * Fix missing command-line handling of --fallback-encoding option.
227 * Fix issue #85: Disable symbol sanity checks when in --trunk-only mode.
229 Improvements and output changes:
230 * Analyze CVS revision dependency graph, giving a more robust conversion.
231 * Improve choice of symbol parents when CVS history is ambiguous.
232 * In the case of clock skew to the past, resync forwards, not backwards.
233 * Treat timestamps that lie in the future as bogus, and adjust backwards.
234 * Gracefully handle tags that refer to nonexistent revisions.
235 * Check and fail if revision header appears multiple times.
236 * Gracefully handle multiple deltatext blocks for same revision.
237 * Be more careful about only processing reasonable *,v files.
238 * Improve checks for illegal filenames.
239 * Check if a directory name conflicts with a filename.
240 * When file is imported, omit the empty revision 1.1.
241 * If a non-trunk default branch is excluded, graft its contents to trunk.
242 * Omit the initial 'dead' revision when a file is added on a branch.
243 * Require --symbol-transform pattern to match entire symbol name.
244 * Treat files as binary by default instead of as text, because it is safer.
245 * Treat auto-props case-insensitively; deprecate --auto-props-ignore-case.
248 * Add a simple (nonportable) script to log cvs2svn memory usage.
249 * Allow contrib/shrink_test_case.py script to try deleting tags and branches.
250 * Add --skip-initial-test option to contrib/shrink_test_case.py script.
253 Version 1.5.1 (28 January 2007)
254 -------------------------------
257 * Add missing import in cvs2svn_lib/process.py.
258 * Fix omission of parsing of the --fallback-encoding option.
261 Version 1.5.0 (03 October 2006)
262 -------------------------------
265 * Support multiproject conversions (each gets its own trunk, tags, branches).
266 * New --options option to allow run-time options to be defined via a file.
267 * --co, --cvs, and --sort options to specify the paths to executables.
268 * Add new --fallback-encoding option.
271 * Fix issue #86: Support multiple project roots per repository.
272 * Fix issue #104: Allow path to "sort" executable to be specified.
273 * Fix issue #8: Allow multiple --encoding options.
274 * Fix issue #109: Improve handling of fallback encodings.
276 Improvements and output changes:
277 * Further reduce conversion time and temporary space requirements.
280 * Deprecate the --dump-only option (it is now implied by --dumpfile).
281 * Add scripts to help isolate conversion problems and shrink test cases.
282 * Add a script to search for illegal filenames in a CVS repository.
285 Version 1.4.0 (27 August 2006)
286 ------------------------------
289 * Support multicomponent --trunk, --tags, and --branches paths (issue #7).
290 * New --auto-props option allows file properties to be set via file.
291 * --force-branch and --force-tag options now accept regular expressions.
292 * Add --symbol-default option.
293 * Support multiple, ordered --encoding options.
296 * Fix issue #93: Tags with forbidden characters converted to branches.
297 * Fix issue #102: Branch file, deleted in CVS, is present in SVN.
299 Improvements and output changes:
300 * Print informative warning message if a required program is missing.
301 * Output an error if any CVS filenames contain control characters.
302 * Clean up temporary files even for pass-by-pass conversions.
303 * Improve handling of commit dependencies and multibranch commits.
304 * Implemented issue #50 (performance change).
305 * Reduced the amount of temporary disk space needed during the conversion.
308 * cvs2svn now requires Python version 2.2 or later.
309 * cvs2svn has been broken up into many smaller python modules for clarity.
312 Version 1.3.1 (24 May 2006)
313 ---------------------------
316 * Fix issue #67: malfunction caused by RCS branches rooted at revision 1.0.
319 Version 1.3.0 (18 August 2005)
320 ------------------------------
323 * Fix cvs2svn's dumpfile output to work after Subversion's r12645.
324 * Fix issue #71: Avoid resyncing two consecutive CVS revs to same time.
325 * Fix issue #88: Don't allow resyncing to throw off CVS revision order.
326 * Fix issue #89: Handle initially dead branch revisions acceptably.
327 * Fix some branch-filling bugs (r1429, r1444).
329 Improvements and output changes:
330 * Better --encoding support when iconv_codec module is available.
331 * Speedups to pass8 (r1421)
332 * Use standard "rNNN" syntax when printing Subversion revisions.
335 Version 1.2.1 (14 February 2005)
336 --------------------------------
339 * Fix cvs2svn's dumpfile output to work after Subversion's r12645.
342 Version 1.2.0 (11 January 2005)
343 -------------------------------
346 * --fs-type=TYPE: make it possible to specify the filesystem type.
349 * Convert files with svn:eol-style to have LF end of lines only.
350 * Fix hang in pass 8 for files that ended with a CR.
351 * Import unexpanded keywords into the repository.
352 * Fix the handling of the $Revision$ keyword.
353 * Fix bug in branch/tag creation edge case.
356 Version 1.1.0 (15 September 2004)
357 ---------------------------------
360 * --symbol-transform: change tag and branch names using regular expressions.
361 * Flush log after writing, for better feedback when using 'tee'.
364 * Issue 74: No longer attempt to change non-existent files.
365 * Allow the Subversion repository created to have spaces in its name.
366 * Avoid erroring when using a svnadmin that uses FSFS by default.
369 Version 1.0.0 (25 August 2004)
370 ------------------------------
372 * The cvs2svn project comes of age.