steps to migrate pvcs to svn

Question

please provide steps to migrate from pvcs to svn. I have googled for the open source tools and found polarion pvcs2svn tool. if someone has used this software, please provide the steps followed and the config.properties file used. I am finding it difficult to use this software. Even I am not receiving any help from the forum of this product.

Answer 1

This tool is quite simple to use. Based on version 1.3 i'm posting some of changes i did on our current config.properties file:

# Import dump settings
import_dump_into_svn=yes
clear_svn_parent_dir=yes
use_only_last_revision_content=no
file_description_property_key=description
use_file_copy=yes

# FILE SETTINGS
full.dump.file=full_dump_%date%.txt
incr.dump.file=incr_dump_%date%.txt
incr.history.file=incr_history.txt
list.files.to=files_%date%.txt
dump.file.sizelimit.mb=400

# SVN DUMP OPTIONS
trunk_path=trunk
branches_path=branches
tags_path=tags
svnimporter_user_name=svn_user
only_trunk=no

# SVN AUTOIMPORT OPTIONS
svnadmin.executable=svnadmin.exe
svnadmin.repository_path=E:/Repositories/OUR_REPO
svnadmin.parent_dir=.
svnadmin.tempdir=e:/temp/svn/local
svnclient.executable=svn.exe
svnadmin.verbose_exec=yes
svn.log.dateformat=dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss
svnadmin.path_not_exist_signature=non-existent in that revision

# PVCS PROVIDER CONFIGURATION #
pvcs.class=org.polarion.svnimporter.pvcsprovider.PvcsProvider
pvcs.executable=pcli.exe
pvcs.projectpath=D:/PVCS/OUR_REPO
pvcs.subproject=
pvcs.tempdir=e:/temp/local_migration
pvcs.checkouttempdir=e:/temp/pvcs_migration
pvcs.log.dateformat=dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss
pvcs.log.datelocale=en
pvcs.log.encoding=utf-8
pvcs.log.datetimezone=Europe/Berlin
pvcs.verbose_exec=yes
pvcs.username=ouruser
pvcs.password=ourpass
# pvcs.keep_vlogfile=yes
# pvcs.import_attributes=yes
pvcs.validate_checkouts=yes

After setting those details, you have to change the pvcs.log.dateformat , pvcs.log.encoding and pvcs.log.datetimezone based on the server timezone.

And then, you must run one of the following commands in order to start the migration.

Linux run.sh full config.properties

Windows run.bat full config.properties

I hope it helps ( and sorry for my english :) )