CVS migration help

[Thomas Manson]

Hi Brian,

on my new system :

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

thomas at home:~/temp/cvsrepo/crf-irp/Ressources/documentation$ ll
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 2 thomas thomas  4096 2008-10-06 18:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 thomas thomas  4096 2008-10-06 18:07 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 23274 2008-01-20 00:56 Sp?cifications.doc,v
thomas at home:~/temp/cvsrepo/crf-irp/Ressources/documentation$ ls -N | hexdump
-C
00000000  53 70 e9 63 69 66 69 63  61 74 69 6f 6e 73 2e 64
|Sp.cifications.d|
00000010  6f 63 2c 76 0a                                    |oc,v.|
00000015

On my old system, from which the files came from  :

LANG=fr_FR at euro

[root at home documentation]# ll
total 24
-r--r--r--  1 paquerette dev 23274 jan 20  2008 Spécifications.doc,v
[root at home documentation]# ls -N | hexdump -C
00000000  53 70 e9 63 69 66 69 63  61 74 69 6f 6e 73 2e 64
|Spécifications.d|
00000010  6f 63 2c 76 0a                                    |oc,v.|
00000015

>Have you checked that the names in the .dat files actually are encoded in
UTF-8?

How would  I do that ?


On my old system, python is too old

[root at home documentation]# yum info python
==============================================================
WARNING: Additional commands may be required after running yum
==============================================================
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Setting up repositories
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
Name   : python
Arch   : i386
Version: 2.3.4
Release: 14.4.el4_6.1
Size   : 20 M
Repo   : installed
Summary: An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.

I'll try to build python from sources and then get bzr...


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 18:29, Brian de Alwis <bsd at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:

>  Hi Thomas.
>
> On 7-Oct-2008, at 9:03 AM, Thomas Manson wrote:
>
>   unfortunately it crashes in the same way that bzr cvsps-import does :
>
>
> thomas at home:~/temp/bzr$ cat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat
> ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat |  bzr fast-import -
> bzr: ERROR: exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes
> in position 43-45: invalid data
>
>
> So that indicates bzr thinks that the filenames in the dumpfile are in
> UTF-8.  Have you checked that the names in the .dat files actually are
> encoded in UTF-8?  Maybe cvs2svn's dumps aren't re-encoding the filenames?
>   If not, try fiddling with your LANG/LC_* env vars to match whatever
> encoding is in use in the file-system  You might get some traction by
> ensuring your LANG=fr_FR.ISO8859-1, or whatever works on your system.
>
> It might be worth doing an `ls -N | hexdump -C' or something similar to
> ensure that the filenames are encoded in latin1.
>
>  [I tried using cvs2svn to create a dumpfile from a toy project with
> accents, but gave up after 10 minutes.  I personally used tailor to convert
> my projects, but none of the files involved accents.]
>
> Brian.
>
>     --
> "Amusement to an observing mind is study." - Benjamin Disraeli
>
>
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