[Dev] CVS to SVN conversion plans

Grant Baillie grant at osafoundation.org
Mon May 23 17:35:08 PDT 2005


On May 20, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Mike Taylor wrote:

> I will be converting the CVS repository to SVN this coming  
> Wednesday, May 25th.  The conversion will occur early in the day my  
> time (EST).
>
> What this means is that CVS will become read-only and the code base  
> will be moved to the subversion repository.  As it stands now all  
> of the CVS history and tags and the like will be transferred.
>
> The change impacts many small parts of our dev environment.
>
> CVS userid and password
>     The SVN userid and password should be the same - the actual  
> details of that will be known later when I do a test-run of the  
> security changes.

Are we going with http(s) + a password to access the repository, or  
svn+ssh?

I'm a fan of the latter, since then I don't have to store the  
password in plain text anywhere on the system (or have to type it  
every time).

--Grant



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