Re: cvs: two repositories

[Robert Epprecht <epprecht@cybercity.ch>]

Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:

> On Monday 04 November 2002 11:15 pm, Robert Epprecht wrote:
>> I'm developping a program which I would like to put somewhere on
>> the net like savannah or sourceforge.  As I am on a slow modem
>> connection I would prefer to keep my local cvs repository and sync
>> the public one from time to time, bundling some related commits
>> in one upload.  How can I do that?

> I am experimenting with doing something like that with subversion.

I did not try subversion yet.
How stable is it?
Can you actually use it with servers like sourceforge or savannah?

> Since subversion uses a .svn directory in your working directory and cvs uses 
> CVS, I figure I can checkout a cvs working copy and import it into a 
> subversion repository.  You then clean your working copy away, and then 
> checkout from subversion.
>
> I think you should then have a working copy on both servers at the same time.  
> Do svn updates/commits locally, do cvs update/commits to the server.
>
> I haven't really got it to work yet

Thank you for your informations.  But (as you can see from my questions)
I'm not very experienced with version control managing, and do not want
to mess things up...

So:  Can anybody positively confirm from experience, that it works?

Robert Epprecht