Fossil (distributed software configuration management system)

Homepage of Fossil: https://www.fossil-scm.org

Migrate from svn to Fossil

We first migrate to git, then to Fossil.

Migrate from svn to git

git svn clone https://<IP>/<path>/<repo-name>

Example:

git svn clone https://192.168.0.145/svn/src

This will get the complete history from the svn repository and create a new git repository with the original name.

Migrate from git to Fossil

cd into the git repository, then

git fast-export --all | fossil import --git newName.fossil

Cloning Windows repository from Linux to itself

• Create ssh access with a key
• Prepare a config file like the following

 Host mywindows
       HostName                192.168.0.144
       User                    Sabine
       Port                    22
       ServerAliveInterval     60
       IdentityFile           ~/.ssh/rsa-sabine.private

• Do the cloning like this:

fossil clone -v ssh://mywindows/D:/test1.repo?fossil=D:/fossil test2.repo

Things to watch for:

• Use the same Fossil version on both systems or at least don't have them differ to much in version.
• Do not use ".exe" when you give the path to Fossil on the Windows system with "fossil=D:/fossil".