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From: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Hawkins,
	Lisa M Mrs CTR USA USASOC-SOAR" 
	<lisa.hawkins1.ctr@soar.army.mil>
Subject: Re: rcs
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:56:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5279071B.2070309@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B49EE6A27F1B0642B4D12AD9C064E8C7B072E5@SOARCPRVSBEU000.regnet2.soar.ns>

Finnerty, James M Mr CTR USA USASOC-SOAR wrote
> Jeff King [mailto:peff@peff.net]wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:35:21AM -0500, Finnerty, James M Mr CTR USA USASOC-SOAR wrote:
>>
>>> Hi. I'm going to attempt to import a git database into Razor which is
>>> linux rcs based. Does the linux version of git use rcs ?
>>
>> No, the formats are completely different, and you will have to translate.
 >> We don't usually get requests to go from git to rcs; it usually goes
 >> the other way. :)

 >
 >    Thanks.  We have several systems using Razor right now. So we are
 > trying to get all the systems into one CM system. Razor is just a gui
 > that uses rcs commands. Once we get everything synced we will explore
 > our options for a complete development CM system.

The problem with using RCS as sync (as base) is that it is least
powerfull of VCS, and as far as I know do not offer place to store
extra information, so conversion from Git to RSS will lose some
information (committership, signed commits and signed merges, signed
tags, etc.).

There is a tool to create fast-import stream from RCS repository,
but I am not sure if there is reverse (fast-import is a common
intermediate fairly VCS_agnostic representation used for fast
conversion between different version control systems).

-- 
Jakub Narębski

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-05 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-29 16:35 rcs Finnerty, James M Mr CTR USA USASOC-SOAR
2013-10-29 17:12 ` rcs Keshav Kini
2013-10-29 18:16 ` rcs Jeff King
2013-10-29 19:17   ` rcs Finnerty, James M Mr CTR USA USASOC-SOAR
2013-11-05 14:56     ` Jakub Narębski [this message]
2013-11-06 17:28       ` rcs Junio C Hamano

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