RubyForge now supports Subversion!

Yup, at long last, we've got all the pieces in place so that you can use either CVS or Subversion for your RubyForge version control!  Couple of things:

• You can see how it looks by poking around Curt Hibbs' Windows Ruby Installer project, which we converted over last week.
• To get your project switched from CVS to Subversion, please put a cvs-to-svn support request into the FIFO queue
• To start up a new project with Subversion as the version control system, just select it when you register the project.
• Undoubtedly there will be some "opportunities for excellence" as folks convert over; as always, we appreciate your feedback and your patience.

Getting it all set up was a bit of a job - installing Subversion, upgrading ViewCVS to the newly-named ViewVC (and updating SWIG), setting up the GForge Subversion plugin, and various other bits and pieces.  But overall it wasn't bad - the Subversion documentation is pretty good and I had Mike Mason's excellent Subversion book to fill in the missing pieces.

Finally, a big thank you to Curt Hibbs for helping to test and troubleshoot this new feature!

Comments

[Frederick Ros]

Nice job !!! This was a long time requested feature :)

[Tom Copeland]

So true, I think the RFE for it was filed in October 2003! Whew.

[Torsten Rueger]

Good work! I don't think I started this just by saying it. And even I don't do software anymore, it's still nice to see.
Congratulations!!!

[Tom Copeland]

Hi Torsten - hey, you're the original submitter! Very nice. Thanks for the kind words!

[Aslak Hellesoy]

Tom,

Thanks so much for your hard work. I'm looking forward to switching over my rubyforge projects to svn!

[Tom Copeland]

Thanks Aslak! Yup, most new projects seem to be choosing Subversion as well... good times.

[Dayne]

Tom, you rock! Lack of CVS was keeping atleast one of my projects hiding in my own private subversion server. Now I don't have an excuse to keep it tied up and can unleash the crippled and withered thing into the light of day. A little light might do it some good.

Many thanks.

[Tom Copeland]

Thanks Dayne! And rubyhwinfo is up on Svn now:
http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=1119

[twifkak]

Sweet! Next up... Trac!

BTW, you might want to check out http://opensvn.csie.org/ for ideas (when it's up). (Just create a project - there's an option to kill it later through the admin interface.)

For instance, they provide a mechanism where you can upload a .gz file through the browser and it'll feed it to svnadmin load -- that way you don't have to deal with the cvs2svn crap.

[Tom Copeland]

Cool, thanks for the pointer!