I wrote:
One possibly very big problem - I don't know how to import a whole repository with versions. I have no control over the apache ownership of files, so I can't just copy (nor do I think it's appropriate to be directly manipulating the subversion data base anyway).
Well, appropriate or not, I *can* just copy and the apache file ownership remains as it was. I created a separate repository by hand, changed permissions on the svn directory to give group write permission, copied over the server-based repository with my non- server repository. What's there now is the copied version. Not exactly elegant but it does work. So I *believe* if we converted the CVS repository, I could just copy the files over the subversion data base created by the dreamhost tool, and we could use the server from that point on. The converse of this is that if I just copy the subversion data base, and change the group to the group shared by our small team, then everyone could access the files the old way. Tim