Subversion/CVS experiment summary

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 20:43:05 +0100
des at des.no (Dag-Erling Sm_rgrav) wrote:

> Alexander Kabaev <ak03 at gte.com> writes:
> > cvs-to-perforce scripts use DB files to keep an information on
> > related commits while they scan CVS repo. I didn't try FreeBSD CVS,
> > but whole SGI Linux tree with full history was processed quite
> > effortlessly, without running out of memory.
> 
> Perforce uses CVS as backing store, so I expect matters are a little
> different than for SVN.
> 
There are two versions of cvs2p4 script and one of them populates
repository using p4 commands. Either way, both versions require full
scan of source repository to locate related changes and group
them together.

So matters are not that different for SVN.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev