[Koha-devel] [URGENT] Move away from Savannah/CVS

[Jerry Van Baren]

Joshua M. Ferraro wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> This is the kind of email I hate to have to write. We're
> facing some urgency on a rather important issue: Savannah
> has been down for two days now, and we're going to have to
> make some quick decisions to avoid losing any more work
> time.
> 
> This also comes at a point in time when we've decided to
> pick a new version control system to replace CVS.
> 
> I caught paul/hdl this morning, and we feel a move to SVN
> with hosting from Google is the best solution:
> 
> http://code.google.com/hosting/
> 
> Here are the likely questions, and our answers:

[snip]

> Q: What about losing all our version history?
> A: A move to Google will mean we'll lose our version 
> history, that's true. Personally, I can't imagine
> we'd want to roll back any of the code in either
> rel_2_2, dev_week or head. 

I have not done anything other than a one-shot quick google search, but 
you should be able to preserve your history

<http://blog.rot13.org/2006/09/how_to_import_subversion_into.html>

> I'd like to arrive at a concensus today about this issue
> if at all possible, so we can get back to work ...
> so please send your comments/suggestions/flames asap.

Thanks for your efforts,
gvb