CHANGES.md

Changelog

Version ?.?.?

Bugs fixed: *

Improvements and output changes: *

Miscellaneous: *

Version 2.5.0 (26 November 2017)

Bugs fixed:

• Handle non-ASCII, non-UTF8 filenames in .cvsignore files.
• ExternalBlobGenerator: Don't fail if no revisions are needed for a file.
• Fix the handling of symbol-matching regexps that include |.
• Handle excluded paths under Attic directories, too.
• cvs2git: fix logging in process_post_commit().
• Prefer to break internal cycles at the largest timestamp gaps.
• Don't try to delete a supposed "revision 1.1" if it has a predecessor.

Improvements and output changes:

• Various small documentation fixes and improvements.
• Make cvs2xxx runnable under PyPy.
• Avoid some allusions to Subversion when converting to another VCS.
• Use tempfile.mkdtemp() to choose the location for temporary files.
• Write all progress information to stderr rather than stdout.
• Write cvs2git and cvs2bzr output to stdout by default.
• Improve build reproducibility by respecting $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
• cvs2git: don't add so much useless metadata to symbol commits.
• cvs2git: allow a file to be set executable in Git via svn:executable

Miscellaneous:

• Use co --version rather than the deprecated co -V.

Version 2.4.0 (22 September 2012)

New features:

• Store CVS file descriptions in a Subversion property cvs:description.
• SVN: Optionally include empty directories from the CVS repository.
• Much faster cvs2git conversions possible via --use-external-blob-generator.
• Use file properties for more flexibility over keyword and EOL handling.
• Add a ConditionalPropertySetter.
• Allow CVS repository paths to be excluded from the conversion.
• Normalize EOLs in CVS log messages to LF.
• Ignore vendor branch declarations that refer to non-existent branches.

Bugs fixed:

• Issue #31: cvs2svn does not convert empty directories.
• Issue #127: Dead "file X added on branch Y" revisions not always dropped.
• Fix --dry-run for cvs2git and cvs2bzr.

Improvements and output changes:

• More aggressively omit unnecessary dead revisions.
• Consider it a failure if cvs or co writes something to stderr.
• Add concept of "file properties", which are only computed once per file.
• Refuse to accept a default branch that is not a top-level branch.
• Make check of illegal filename characters dependent on the target VCS.
• Improve error reporting for invalid date strings in CVS.
• Many documentation improvements.
• Allow grafting a branch onto a parent that has itself been grafted.
• Slightly improve choice of parent branch for vendor branches.
• Only import "database" if used, to avoid error if no DB module installed.
• Ignore newphrases in RCS files more robustly.
• Fix the expansion of the $Source$ keyword for Attic files.
• Various other minor improvements and fixes.

Miscellaneous:

• Sort large files using Python to avoid dependency on GNU sort.

Version 2.3.0 (22 August 2009)

New features:

• Add a cvs2git script for starting conversions to git (or Mercurial).
• Add a cvs2bzr script for starting conversions to Bazaar.
• Generate manual pages automatically via new --man option.
• Allow --mime-types and --auto-props options to be specified more than once.
• Support author transforms when converting to Subversion.
• Allow unlabeled branches to be renamed using SymbolTransforms.

Bugs fixed:

• cvs2git with non-inline blobs: a revision after a delete could be empty.
• Fix timezone handling under Windows (which does not respect TZ variable).
• Do path comparisions platform-independently in symbol transform classes.
• Fix https://bugs.launchpad.net/pld-linux/+bug/385920

Improvements and output changes:

• Output error message if a revision's deltatext is missing.
• Improve contrib/verify-cvs2svn.py (used for testing conversion accuracy).

Miscellaneous:

• Add an IgnoreSymbolTransform class, for ignoring symbols matching a regexp.
• Remove some DeprecationWarnings when running under newer Python versions.

Version 2.2.0 (23 November 2008)

New features:

• cvs2git: Omit fixup branch if a tag can be copied from an existing revision.
• cvs2git: Add option to set the maximum number of merge sources per commit.
• Allow arbitrary SVN directories to be created when a project is created.
• Allow vendor branches to be excluded, grafting child symbols to trunk.
• By default, omit trivial import branches from conversion.
  • Add --keep-trivial-imports option to get old behavior.
• By default, don't include .cvsignore files in output (except as svn:ignore).
  • Add option --keep-cvsignore to get the old behavior.
• Allow the user to specify the form of cvs2svn-generated log messages.
• Allow file contents to be written inline in git-fast-import streams.
• --create-option: allow arbitrary options to be passed to svnadmin create.
• Improve handling of auto-props file:
  • Discard extraneous spaces where they don't make sense.
  • Warn if parts of the file might be commented out unintentionally.
  • Warn if the user appears to be trying to quote a property value.

Bugs fixed:

• Fix issue #81: Remove svn:ignore property when .cvsignore is deleted.
• Fix svn dumpfile conformance:
  • Don't include a leading / for Node-path.
  • Include the Node-kind field when copying nodes.
• Make symlink test create symlinks explicitly, to avoid packaging problems.
• Accept symbol references to revision numbers that end with .0.

Improvements and output changes:

• When -v, log reasons for symbol conversion choices (tag/branch/exclude).
• Log preferred parent determinations at verbose (rather than debug) level.
• Log symbol transformations at verbose (rather than warn) level.
• Log statistics about all symbol transformations at normal level.
• cvs2git: Generate lightweight rather than annotated tags.
• contrib/destroy_repository.py:
  • Allow symbols, files, and directories to be renamed.
  • Allow CVSROOT directory contents to be erased.
  • Specify what aspects of a repo to destroy via command-line options.

Miscellaneous:

• cvs2svn now requires Python version 2.4 or later.

Version 2.1.1 (15 April 2008)

Bugs fixed:

• Make files that are to be sorted more text-like to fix problem on Windows.
• Fix comment in header of --write-symbol-info output file.

Miscellaneous

• Adjust test suite for upstream changes in the svntest code.

Version 2.1.0 (19 February 2008)

New features:

• Allow conversion of a CVS repository to git (experimental).
  • Support mapping from cvs author names to git Author <email> form.
• Enhance symbol transform capabilities:
  • Add SymbolMapper, for transforming specific symbols in specific files.
  • Allow SymbolTransforms to cause a symbol to be discarded.
• Enhance symbol strategy capabilities:
  • Write each CVS branch/tag to be written to an arbitrary SVN path.
  • Choose which trunk/branch should serve as the parent of each branch/tag.
  • --symbol-hints: manually specify how symbols should be converted.
  • Make symbol strategy rules project-specific.
• --write-symbol-info: output info about CVS symbols.
• Add option ctx.decode_apple_single for handling AppleSingle-encoded files.
• Add a new, restartable pass that converts author and log_msg to Unicode.
• Allow properties to be left unset via auto-props using a leading !.

Bugs fixed:

• Fix issue #80: Empty CVS,v file not accepted.
• Fix issue #108: Create project TTB directories "just-in-time".
• Fix issue #112: Random test failures with Python 2.5.
• Fix issue #115: crash - Bad file descriptor.
• Fix the translation of line-end characters for eol-styles CR and CRLF.

Improvements and output changes:

• Create trunk/tags/branches directories for project when project is created.
• Improved conversion speed significantly, especially for large repositories.
• Ignore (with a warning) symbols defined to malformed revision numbers.
• Tolerate multiple definitions of a symbol to the same revision number.
• Handle RCS files that superfluously set the default branch to trunk.
• Allow / characters in CVS symbol names (creating multilevel SVN paths).
• Allow symbols to be transformed to contain / (allowing multilevel paths).
• Convert \ characters to / (rather than --) in symbol names.
• Make encoding problems fatal; to resolve, restart at CleanMetadataPass.

Miscellaneous:

• Change the default symbol handling option to --symbol-default=heuristic.

Version 2.0.1 (04 October 2007)

Bugs fixed:

• Fix problem with keyword expansion when using --use-internal-co.

Version 2.0.0 (15 August 2007)

New features:

• Add --use-internal-co to speed conversions, and make it the default.
• Add --retain-conflicting-attic-files option.
• Add --no-cross-branch-commits option.
• Add --default-eol option and deprecate --no-default-eol.
• RevisionRecorder hook allows file text/deltas to be recorded in pass 1.
• RevisionReader hook allows file text to be retrieved from RevisionRecorder.
• Slightly changed the order that properties are set, for more flexibility.
• Don't set svn:keywords on files for which svn:eol-style is not set.
• Implement issue #53: Allow --trunk='' for --trunk-only conversions.

Bugs fixed:

• Fix issue #97: Follow symlinks within CVS repository.
• Fix issue #99: cvs2svn tries to create a file twice.
• Fix issue #100: cvs2svn doesn't retrieve the right version.
• Fix issue #105: Conflict between directory and Attic file causes crash.
• Fix issue #106: SVNRepositoryMirrorParentMissingError.
• Fix missing command-line handling of --fallback-encoding option.
• Fix issue #85: Disable symbol sanity checks when in --trunk-only mode.

Improvements and output changes:

• Analyze CVS revision dependency graph, giving a more robust conversion.
• Improve choice of symbol parents when CVS history is ambiguous.
• In the case of clock skew to the past, resync forwards, not backwards.
• Treat timestamps that lie in the future as bogus, and adjust backwards.
• Gracefully handle tags that refer to nonexistent revisions.
• Check and fail if revision header appears multiple times.
• Gracefully handle multiple deltatext blocks for same revision.
• Be more careful about only processing reasonable *,v files.
• Improve checks for illegal filenames.
• Check if a directory name conflicts with a filename.
• When file is imported, omit the empty revision 1.1.
• If a non-trunk default branch is excluded, graft its contents to trunk.
• Omit the initial 'dead' revision when a file is added on a branch.
• Require --symbol-transform pattern to match entire symbol name.
• Treat files as binary by default instead of as text, because it is safer.
• Treat auto-props case-insensitively; deprecate --auto-props-ignore-case.

Miscellaneous:

• Add a simple (nonportable) script to log cvs2svn memory usage.
• Allow contrib/shrink_test_case.py script to try deleting tags and branches.
• Add --skip-initial-test option to contrib/shrink_test_case.py script.

Version 1.5.1 (28 January 2007)

Bugs fixed:

• Add missing import in cvs2svn_lib/process.py.
• Fix omission of parsing of the --fallback-encoding option.

Version 1.5.0 (03 October 2006)

New features:

• Support multiproject conversions (each gets its own trunk, tags, branches).
• New --options option to allow run-time options to be defined via a file.
• --co, --cvs, and --sort options to specify the paths to executables.
• Add new --fallback-encoding option.

Bugs fixed:

• Fix issue #86: Support multiple project roots per repository.
• Fix issue #104: Allow path to sort executable to be specified.
• Fix issue #8: Allow multiple --encoding options.
• Fix issue #109: Improve handling of fallback encodings.

Improvements and output changes:

• Further reduce conversion time and temporary space requirements.

Miscellaneous:

• Deprecate the --dump-only option (it is now implied by --dumpfile).
• Add scripts to help isolate conversion problems and shrink test cases.
• Add a script to search for illegal filenames in a CVS repository.

Version 1.4.0 (27 August 2006)

New features:

• Support multicomponent --trunk, --tags, and --branches paths (issue #7).
• New --auto-props option allows file properties to be set via file.
• --force-branch and --force-tag options now accept regular expressions.
• Add --symbol-default option.
• Support multiple, ordered --encoding options.

Bugs fixed:

• Fix issue #93: Tags with forbidden characters converted to branches.
• Fix issue #102: Branch file, deleted in CVS, is present in SVN.

Improvements and output changes:

• Print informative warning message if a required program is missing.
• Output an error if any CVS filenames contain control characters.
• Clean up temporary files even for pass-by-pass conversions.
• Improve handling of commit dependencies and multibranch commits.
• Implemented issue #50 (performance change).
• Reduced the amount of temporary disk space needed during the conversion.

Miscellaneous:

• cvs2svn now requires Python version 2.2 or later.
• cvs2svn has been broken up into many smaller python modules for clarity.

Version 1.3.1 (24 May 2006)

Bugs fixed:

• Fix issue #67: malfunction caused by RCS branches rooted at revision 1.0.

Version 1.3.0 (18 August 2005)

Bugs fixed:

• Fix cvs2svn's dumpfile output to work after Subversion's r12645.
• Fix issue #71: Avoid resyncing two consecutive CVS revs to same time.
• Fix issue #88: Don't allow resyncing to throw off CVS revision order.
• Fix issue #89: Handle initially dead branch revisions acceptably.
• Fix some branch-filling bugs (r1429, r1444).

Improvements and output changes:

• Better --encoding support when iconv_codec module is available.
• Speedups to pass 8 (r1421)
• Use standard rNNN syntax when printing Subversion revisions.

Version 1.2.1 (14 February 2005)

Bugs fixed:

• Fix cvs2svn's dumpfile output to work after Subversion's r12645.

Version 1.2.0 (11 January 2005)

New features:

• --fs-type=TYPE: make it possible to specify the filesystem type.

Bugs fixed:

• Convert files with svn:eol-style to have LF end of lines only.
• Fix hang in pass 8 for files that ended with a CR.
• Import unexpanded keywords into the repository.
• Fix the handling of the $Revision$ keyword.
• Fix bug in branch/tag creation edge case.

Version 1.1.0 (15 September 2004)

New features:

• --symbol-transform: change tag and branch names using regular expressions.
• Flush log after writing, for better feedback when using tee.

Bugs fixed:

• Issue 74: No longer attempt to change non-existent files.
• Allow the Subversion repository created to have spaces in its name.
• Avoid erroring when using a svnadmin that uses FSFS by default.

Version 1.0.0 (25 August 2004)

• The cvs2svn project comes of age.