tigris.org shutting down WITHIN TWO MONTHS, where’s the new home?

[mirabilos]

http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ has a big, fat banner:

2020-04-07: This site is going to be decommissioned and shut down on 2020-07-01. Please copy and archive any data you wish to keep before that date.

Have you moved all information (documentation, discussions, source, etc.) out?

Where?

[mirabilos]

Cc: @gcsideal

[mhagger]

I'm in the process of getting a data dump from tigris.org. When I see what's in it and in what format, we can think about next steps.

[mirabilos]

Michael Haggerty dixit:

I'm in the process of getting a data dump from tigris.org. When I see what's in it and in what format, we can think about next steps.

OK, thanks for the update! bye, //mirabilos -- 13:22⎜«neurodamage» mira, what's up man? I have a CVS question for you in #cvs 13:22⎜«neurodamage» since you're so good w. it │ «neurodamage:#cvs» i love you 13:28⎜«neurodamage:#cvs» you're a handy guy to have around for systems stuff ☺ 16:06⎜<Draget:#cvs> Thank god I found you =) 20:03│«bioe007:#cvs» mira2k: ty 17:14⎜<ldiain:#cvs> Thanks big help you are :-) <bioe007> mira|nwt: ty again 18:35⎜«alturiak:#cvs» mirabilos: aw, nice. thanks :o 18:36⎜«ThunderChicken:#cvs» mirabilos FTW! 23:03⎜«mithraic:#cvs» aaah. thanks 18:41⎜«alturiak:#cvs» phew. thanks a bunch, guys. you just made my weekend :-) 18:10⎜«sumit:#cvs» mirabilos: oh ok.. thanks for that 21:57⎜<bhuey:#cvs> yeah, I really appreciate help 18:50⎜«grndlvl:#cvs» thankyou 18:50⎜«grndlvl:#cvs» worked perfectly 20:50⎜<paolo:#cvs> i see. mirabilos, thnks for your support 00:36⎜«halirutan:#cvs» ok, the obvious way:-) thx 18:44⎜«arcfide:#cvs» mirabilos, I am running OpenBSD. 18:59⎜«arcfide:#cvs» Hrm, yes, I see what you mean. 19:01⎜«arcfide:#cvs» Yeah, thanks for the help. 21:33⎜«CardinalFang:#cvs» Ugh. Okay. Sorry for the dumb question. Thank you 21:34⎜<centosian:#cvs> mirabilos: whoa that's sweet 21:52⎜«garrett__:#cvs» much appreciated «garrett__:#cvs» thanks for your time 23:39⎜<symons:#cvs> this worked, thank you very much 16:26⎜<schweizer:#cvs> ok thx, i'll try that 20:00⎜«stableable:#cvs» Thank you. 20:50⎜«s833:#cvs» mirabilos: thanks a lot. 19:34⎜<bobbytek:#cvs> Thanks for confirming :) 20:08⎜<tsolox:#cvs> ...works like a charm.. thanks mirabilos

[mhagger]

I still haven't gotten a data dump from collab.net. We might be on our own here.

I think we should make this the new canonical site for cvs2svn. Though, to be honest, I expect most people have done their migrations years ago and I haven't spent any significant time on this project in ages. Mailing list traffic also decreased to essentially nothing years ago.

GET OFF OF CVS, PEOPLE!

[pcanterino]

Tigris.org removed that landing page. So now you can at least browse the site again. Perhaps they just took their time and will send you a project dump soon...

However, I took the opportunity to dump cvs2svn's repository using svnrdump. So at least the repository is saved.

I attached the dumpfile to this issue: cvs2svn.dump.gz

[pcanterino]

And as I already mentioned in a mail, the SVN repository at Tigris.org is at revision 5478 (now I can prove it 😉), while the latest Git commit 204955d is equal to SVN revision 5471. So there are some commits missing on GitHub.

[cacsar]

For making this the home I think spinning up a Github opensource team/organization (or just a free tier one) might be the way to go.

[mirabilos]

cacsar dixit:

For making this the home I think spinning up a Github opensource team/organization (or just a free tier one) might be the way to go.

Just doing it in this repo would suffice…

[shwetajain-ctl]

Do we have a new document which can help us to migrate CVS to git with history? Cloning https://github.com/mhagger/cvs2svn.git gives error.

Cloning into 'C:\Documents\GitHub\cvs2svn'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 18432, done.
remote: Total 18432 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 18432
Receiving objects: 100% (18432/18432), 10.60 MiB | 2.63 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (11999/11999), done.
error: invalid path 'test-data/main-cvsrepos/single-files/"double-double-quotes",v'
fatal: unable to checkout working tree
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'

I have this document with me, which states first step to clone this repository; but doesn't work.

[mirabilos]

shwetajain-ctl dixit:

Cloning into 'C:\Documents\GitHub\cvs2svn'...

Don’t use Windows.

[shwetajain-ctl]

shwetajain-ctl dixit:
Cloning into 'C:\Documents\GitHub\cvs2svn'...
Don’t use Windows.

Hi,
I have limitations with my project, is there any other way to get CVS to Git migrate with history? If you have any steps which can help me in this migration?

[mhagger]

@shwetajain-ctl That file is part of the test suite; you don't need it when converting. The clone succeeded for you; it was only checking the files out to disk that failed. So it might be that you already have all that you need in your working copy. If not, the easiest thing might be to create a zipfile or tarball using git archive then unpacking all but the test-data directory to your system.

You can also download a zipfile/tarball directly from GitHub if that's easier for you.

I agree that this is a nuisance. Ideally, we'd remove that file from the source tree, for example creating it at test runtime instead, and skipping that test entirely on filesystems that can't handle it.

[mhagger]

The new home is here. It's still not perfect, but this isn't exactly a super-active project, either, so it should suffice.