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On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Arthur Barrett < arthur.barrett at march-hare.com> wrote: > Ponkumar S, > > > Does CVSNT to SVN conversion is supported. > > > > Generally people move from SVN to CVSNT not the other way around, since > CVSNT has more features than SVN you will LOSE information and features. > Authur, I know that you must feel the need to promote your product, but this statement is both unlikely and probably unsupportable. Even if your experience showed more conversions to CVSNT than from, that would be exactly be what I would expect as a CVSNT vendor. People aren't going to come to the CVSNT experts to get their repositories converted to SVN, they'll only come to you to get converted to CVSNT. I admit that CVSNT does have more features than SVN at this point. On the other hand, it has been choking on our large repository, using some of the "features" have caused us more trouble that they were worth (rename), and it isn't doesn't have critical mass in the software development community. This last point can't be stressed enough, in my experience. For whatever reason, CVSNT never got the widespreadd acceptance in the software development community that other SCMs have. On its merits, CVSNT is an excellent platform, and has served us very well for years, and saved us from the horrors of VSS. I suspect that it is at least partly the attitude I've occasionally seen expressed by Arthur and company that has led to this lack of popularity - though admittedly I really have no solid reason why. Regardless, CVSNT was never really mainstream, and so now it's a bit stuck in its own ghetto. CVS, for all its warts, was at least in the mainstream, and so migrating from it to newer, better SCMs is at least well supported. CVSNT doesn't have that luxury. It can give you the features of today, and probably serve most very well, but it's a bit of a dead-end road because of lack of acceptance, and I'm afraid EVS is bound to the same fate. I'm sure it will prove to be an excellent solution for some, and give March Hare a solid platform on which to compete with newer whiz-bangy SCMs, but it will also never be mainstream. And so, when you do finally get to that point where the newer features make a solid business case in your scenario, you'll be stuck without an easy upgrade path. That has been my pain for the last several months. Converting to SVN, I'll still have the comfort of the good GUI tools and integrations that I enjoy with CVSNT, but I'll also have a much less painful upgrade path for that time when converting on to the distributed SCMs like git/Hg/etc makes good business sense. -- Bryce Schober