From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin Langhoff" Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:05:37 +1200 Message-ID: <46a038f90707151805j454b57fbvb4d7ed526e1e64ce@mail.gmail.com> References: <469804B4.1040509@alum.mit.edu> <46a038f90707132230n120e6392uaf5cd86ff10b6012@mail.gmail.com> <4699034A.9090603@alum.mit.edu> <20070714195252.GB11010@thyrsus.com> <46994BDF.6050803@alum.mit.edu> <20070715013949.GA20850@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Michael Haggerty" , "Julian Phillips" , git@vger.kernel.org, dev To: esr@thyrsus.com X-From: dev-return-2061-gcvscd-dev=m.gmane.org@cvs2svn.tigris.org Mon Jul 16 03:05:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvscd-dev@gmane.org Received: from sc157.sjc.collab.net ([204.16.104.146] helo=tigris.org) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IAF1x-0002bM-Bs for gcvscd-dev@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:05:43 +0200 Received: (qmail 6097 invoked by uid 5000); 16 Jul 2007 01:05:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@cvs2svn.tigris.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@cvs2svn.tigris.org Received: (qmail 6087 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2007 01:05:38 -0000 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAJJhmkZC+VLsjWdsb2JhbACPPwEBAgcCBgkIGA X-IronPort-AV: i="4.16,540,1175497200"; d="scan'208"; a="62206529:sNHT18804044" X-IRONPORT: SCANNED DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Euz8RyZtyeRJqtF0ju+ecWrh+96o/F3tzmJtOP4k7dZ55aEbeR3JrN4alkvLBYcBOa9M19zKyyaIxWrsOT7xrju024otgSz7keGvm8lUpZcEZ8zgIdzezZR2axB4YIIJTf7PiYdbnI14Pya51b7n3cIm69zMhcYkQzU+fbOuDGU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=r9dEFa3IWaG0XcI7NmFCPzXfRcgRuaRAKrGL3jVONxbvJLzm/tX87ZY60GlLnyV0XiyfaEdmKjLwZMaOJ1g6miAaGZBjgnlAVeJio75yzhZcVCw86EPQAH+OrUJxq0GU09zfQ18ksRFJCkDs5ieBejfQVXZcTwnbEkcIWAzTKxA= In-Reply-To: <20070715013949.GA20850@thyrsus.com> Content-Disposition: inline Archived-At: On 7/15/07, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Not quite. I'm suggesting it's an appropriate lingua franca for centralized > VCSes with branching, e.g. everything pre-Arch. That's a huge goal that gets in the way of waht we want to do here: we are trying to save time, not embark on some huge mission. cvs2svn has all the "wtf-did-cvs-mean-by-that" algorithms that are very hard to write and maintain, and it seems to be the best one at that. Of course, it also writes SVN repos -- but I'm sure that's the easiest part. We don't need no meta VCS for any of this. All we need is to hook into the "write out a repo based on all the stuff we parsed from cvs". Perhaps it's doable, and if Michael helps out abstracting that part a bit, maintainable long term too. cheers, m