Setup

System Requirements

  1. [SVN] an unzipped Subversion dump file of the repository to be converted (generated without the --delta flag).

  2. [CVS] an unzipped CVSROOT directory containing the RCS files of the repository to be converted.

  3. System must have Java SE Runtime 1.7.

  4. System must have the Perforce Server binaries 2010.2 or greater.

  5. [Import Mode] A running Perforce Server (typically empty) with no pending changes in the conversion area.

  6. [Convert Mode] An empty Perforce Root directory for the generated archive and journal files.

Resource Tips:

Running some conversions, particularly in Conversion Mode can be very memory intensive, as a mapping of revisions and integrations is kept in memory. For large conversions, or conversions with excessive branching, more memory will needed by the JVM.

The --info option will scan the Subversion dump file and report usage data to help estimate the required memory for Convert Mode. For example: 

java -jar p4convert.jar --type=SVN --repo=<path_to_svn_dumpfile> --info

Use the -Xmx flags to increase the memory allocated to the JVM. For example, to allocate 64GB (65536MB) use: 

java -Xmx65536M -jar p4convert.jar --config=myConfig.cfg