From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:18:12 +0200 Message-ID: <469FB8F4.5090902@fs.ei.tum.de> References: <469804B4.1040509@alum.mit.edu> <46a038f90707132230n120e6392uaf5cd86ff10b6012@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Michael Haggerty , Julian Phillips , git@vger.kernel.org To: Martin Langhoff X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 19 21:50:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IBc0i-0006Z3-Tn for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:50:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938176AbXGSTuA convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:50:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S938778AbXGSTpB (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:45:01 -0400 Received: from stella.fs.ei.tum.de ([129.187.54.7]:33746 "EHLO stella.fs.ei.tum.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S939659AbXGSTo5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:44:57 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.fs.ei.tum.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F49280A2; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:18:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at fs.ei.tum.de Received: from stella.fs.ei.tum.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (stella.fs.ei.tum.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id mm2OJGo8C3yG; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:18:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sweatshorts.home.corecode.ath.cx (85-218-11-169.dclient.lsne.ch [85.218.11.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by stella.fs.ei.tum.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB316280A1; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:18:12 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070627) In-Reply-To: <46a038f90707132230n120e6392uaf5cd86ff10b6012@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 7/14/07, Michael Haggerty wrote: >> Incidentally, now that cvs2svn 2.0.0 is nearly out, I am thinking ab= out >> what it would take to write some other back ends for cvs2svn--turnin= g >> it, essentially, into cvs2xxx. Most of the work that cvs2svn does i= s >> inferring the most plausible history of the repository from CVS's >> sketchy, incomplete, idiomatic, and often corrupt data. This work >> should also be useful for a cvs2git or cvs2hg or cvs2baz or ... >=20 > Great to hear that. I'm game if we can do something in this direction > - surely we can make it talk to fastimport ;-) In this context I suggest looking at fromcvs [1], my cvs->otherscm conv= erter. Right now it does git + hg (and sqlite for queries), but it pro= bably is easily extensible for other targets. > Does cvs2svn handle incremental imports, remembering any "guesses" > taken earlier? Last time I looked at it, it had far better logic than > cvsps, but it didn't do incremental imports, and repeated imports don= e > at different times would "guess" different branching points for new > branches, so it _really_ didn't support incrementals fromcvs will also handle incremental imports. If not, please tell me a= nd I will try to fix it. cheers simon [1] http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg/fromcvs/ --=20 Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work - Mac +++ space for low =E2=82=AC=E2=82=AC=E2=82=AC NOW!1 += ++ Campaign \ / Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \