gateway status?

gateway status?

[David Lang]

I seem to remember seeing discussion of gateways to cvs/svn that would let 
a project use a git repository and allow clients to use cvs/svn clients to 
retreive data.

am I remembering correctly, and are these tools ready for production use? 
the popfile project is getting ready to abandon sourceforge and move to 
self-hosting, but before I suggest that they use git I need to know the 
current status of these projects (I think the ability to export directly 
into the other interfaces is a significant advantage)

David Lang

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Re: gateway status?

[Martin Langhoff]

On 5/16/06, David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:
> I seem to remember seeing discussion of gateways to cvs/svn that would let
> a project use a git repository and allow clients to use cvs/svn clients to
> retreive data.

David,

I suspect you might be thinking of git-cvsserver. The code has no
known bugs, but is has only seen limited use by in-house dev teams.

A good measure is to run an import of the current cvs project (I would
try both git-cvsimport and parsecvs) and then get a checkout via
git-cvsserver.

Works great with traditional cvs cli and well behaved clients (TortoiseCVS).

> am I remembering correctly, and are these tools ready for production use?
> the popfile project is getting ready to abandon sourceforge and move to
> self-hosting, but before I suggest that they use git I need to know the
> current status of these projects (I think the ability to export directly
> into the other interfaces is a significant advantage)

Moodle (a project I hack on) is in a similar situation, specially
after the SF.net debacle with CVS. It is very likely that it will move
to git with git-cvsserver providing "anon cvs" and cvs over ssh to a
very limited set of people with commit rights but no development
knowledge (translators, etc). So there is a path forward.

cheers,



martin

tailor (Was: gateway status?)

[Yann Dirson]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:09:19AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 5/16/06, David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:
> >I seem to remember seeing discussion of gateways to cvs/svn that would let
> >a project use a git repository and allow clients to use cvs/svn clients to
> >retreive data.
> 
> I suspect you might be thinking of git-cvsserver. The code has no
> known bugs, but is has only seen limited use by in-house dev teams.

Another tool that I don't see mentionned often here is tailor, which
has the ability to act as a gatway between git and a good selection of
other SCMs, including cvs and svn.  I have not yet tried it with git
though, so any comments from people having shaked it a bit would be
useful :)

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Re: tailor (Was: gateway status?)

[Martin Langhoff]

On 5/19/06, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:
> Another tool that I don't see mentionned often here is tailor, which
> has the ability to act as a gatway between git and a good selection of
> other SCMs, including cvs and svn.  I have not yet tried it with git
> though, so any comments from people having shaked it a bit would be
> useful :)

Last I looked, a few months ago, it didn't track branches.

cheers,


martin

Re: gateway status?

[Jakub Narebski]

David Lang wrote:

> I seem to remember seeing discussion of gateways to cvs/svn that would let 
> a project use a git repository and allow clients to use cvs/svn clients to 
> retreive data.
> 
> am I remembering correctly, and are these tools ready for production use? 


Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
in "[0/2 PATCH] git-svn 1.0.0 release" thread
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/19644

> It's been very solid for a long time now.  I haven't run into
> any problems with it myself in a while, and no critical bugs
> that I know of exist.  Labeling it 1.0.0 may make it look
> less scary to new users :)

So I guess yes, they are.


P.S. IIRC git-cvsserver is used as temporary "Git plugin" for Eclipse, and
there are some problems with that due to the cvs client/server
implementation in Eclipse.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland