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This page describes the FreeBSD Subversion to CVS exporter AKA svn2cvs.
Currently the page is work in progress and should not be relied on to be accurate!
Basic operation
The basic purpose of the FreeBSD svn2cvs system is to replicate commits in the FreeBSD Subversion repository to the old CVS repository. svn2cvs preserves full commit information (as much as CVS allows) by exporting:
* commit comment
svn2cvs exporter basically works by examining each
Data sources
Problems
It doesn't like when a file is 'replaced'..
Evil files which has been replaced are:
* src/tools/build/options/WITH_BIND_LIBS * src/contrib/file/magic2mime