Most of my projects all use Subversion now, as everyone knows it’s the recommended little brother of CVS. However, for everything that doesn’t have a home in SVN with a client, I was storing in CVS I had running on my local dev machine.

Not wanting to loose any of my files or their histories, I wanted to find a way to transfer everything into subversion. At the recent ZendCon I heard about cvs2svn and I tried it out. It was very easy to install (required Python, which was easy for me to installed through Yum), and it was easy to run - at least for me as I was just pulling everything over.

Now I’ve got everything in subversion and I was able to maintain the file histories for everything.