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Reputation: 3474

CVS2SVN conversion failure due to Attic

I am using CVS2SVN tool(v2.5.0) running with python2.7 to convert cvs repository to svn. All initial validations are passed but get an error saying same file cannot contain in the actual path and Attic directory.

ERROR: A CVS repository cannot contain both c:\mycvs\programs\path\files\MyTest.java,v and c:\mycvs\programs\path\files\Attic\MyTest.java,v

How do I solve this error?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 545

Answers (1)

jprism
jprism

Reputation: 3474

I am able to correct the issue after reading more documentation and understands what is Attic and when it gets created. CVS creates the directory Attic and keeps the files which have two conflicting histories and even CVS does not know the correct history of those files. Both solutions recommended by cvs2svn have pros and cons. You can use --retain-conflicting-attic-files to convert files in both places or remove Attic versions. I chose the second one and restarted the conversion.

Read here for more details http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jacob/cvs2svn/faq.html

Upvotes: 2

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