Here is a tail about my try to use Subversion (actually, svk to manage my local changes on qemu project

This page is based on CVS to SVN guide on Savannah

Copy project from Savannah

rsync -av rsync://cvs.sv.gnu.org/sources/qemu qemu-cvs/

Convert CVS to Subversion

cvs2svn --cvs-revnums -s qemu-svn qemu-cvs