[Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion

[Jeff Rush]

On Thursday 28 July 2005 07:21 pm, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Martin v. Löwis]
>
> > The conversion should be done using cvs2svn utility, available e.g.
> > in the cvs2svn Debian package. The command for converting the Python
> > repository is

<snip>

> > Sample results of this conversion are available at
> >
> > http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/python/
> > http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/distutils/
>
> I'm sending this to Jim Fulton because he did the conversion of Zope
> Corp's code base to SVN.  Unfortunately, Jim will soon be out of touch
> for several weeks.  Jim, do you have time to summarize the high bits
> of the problems you hit?  IIRC, you didn't find any conversion script
> at the time capable of doing the whole job as-is.  If that's wrong, it
> would be good to know that too.

The conversion script isn't perfect and does fail on complex CVS arrangements 
or where there is extensive history to migate.  However it appears above that 
Martin has already tried the script out, with success.

BTW, re SSH access on python.org, using Apache's SSL support re https would 
provide as good of security without the risk of giving out shell accounts.  
SSL would encrypt the link and require a password or permit cert auth 
instead, same as SSH.  Cert admin needn't be hard if only a single server 
cert is used, with client passwords, instead of client certs.

-Jeff