juretta.com

Here is how to convert your existing CVS repositories to Subversion.

Step 1: get cvs2svn

Go to cvs2svn.tigris.org and download the package corresponding to the version of Subversion you are using (On Debian try apt-get install cvs2svn, on Mac OS X try Fink or Darwin Ports).

Step 2: Convert your repository

cvs2svn is designed for one-time conversion from CVS to Subversion. So commit all your pending changes and take your CVS repository offline to make sure that no more changes are commited to it.
I wanted to convert all my existing CVS Repositories to one Subversion repository:

stefan@www:~/tmp$ ls -l /usr/local/cvsroot/
total 53
drwxr-xr-x   3 stefan staff 1024 Nov 26  2004 CVSROOT
[...]
drwxrwxr-x   5 stefan staff 1024 Jan 11  2005 feedgenerator
[...]
drwxrwxr-x   8 stefan staff 1024 Feb 20  2005 www.juretta.com

Make a copy of your CVS repository

stefan@www:~/tmp$ cp -R /usr/local/cvsroot ./

Run cvs2svn

stefan@www:~/tmp$ cvs2svn -v -s /usr/local/svn/repos/cvsrepos cvsroot
[..]
------------------------------------------------------------
CVS Revision grouping:
  Start time: Sun Dec 26 11:22:18 2004 (duration: 1 second)
[..]
Timings:
------------------
pass 1:   230 seconds
pass 2:     0 seconds
pass 3:     0 seconds
pass 4:     0 seconds
pass 5:     1 second
pass 6:     0 seconds
pass 7:     0 seconds
pass 8:   325 seconds
total:    555 seconds

Check the new repository

stefan@www:~/tmp$ svn ls file:///usr/local/svn/repos/cvsrepos/trunk
CVSROOT/
RubyLib/
[...]
www.juretta.com/

Done!