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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
	"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy@internode.on.net>,
	Bazaar <bazaar@lists.canonical.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] bzr-fastimport plugin, yet another Bazaar import option]
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:14:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BECAD2.7000401@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080222113737.GA18581@artemis.madism.org>

Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:32:28AM +0000, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> Michael Haggerty of cvs2svn has spent a good amount of time creating
>> a git-fast-import backend to cvs2svn.  Given that cvs2svn is one of
>> the few tools that can read some of the really strange real world
>> CVS trees its good to be able to leverage that work for other systems
>> (SVN, Git, and now Bazaar).
> 
>   /me opens bigs ears and eyes: does this mean that we have an
> incremental importer of CVS based on git-fast-import ?

cvs2svn is robust and uses git-fast-import, but it is *not* incremental.
 Incremental conversion would be fun but it would be a lot of work to
implement in such a way that it works reliably.

Michael

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-22 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <47BE167A.4060005@internode.on.net>
2008-02-22  7:32 ` [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] bzr-fastimport plugin, yet another Bazaar import option] Shawn O. Pearce
2008-02-22  7:47   ` Ian Clatworthy
2008-02-22 10:36     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-22 10:33   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-22 11:37   ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-02-22 11:47     ` cvs2svn, was " Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-22 13:14     ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2008-02-22 14:44     ` Aidan Van Dyk
2008-02-22 18:20       ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-02-22 19:25         ` Aidan Van Dyk

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