From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFrdWIgTmFyxJlic2tp?= Subject: Re: rcs Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:56:27 +0100 Message-ID: <5279071B.2070309@gmail.com> References: <20131029181614.GA13601@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jeff King , git@vger.kernel.org, "Hawkins, Lisa M Mrs CTR USA USASOC-SOAR" To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 05 15:56:46 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdi3g-000817-UM for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:56:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755126Ab3KEO4l convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Nov 2013 09:56:41 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32836 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754807Ab3KEO4k (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Nov 2013 09:56:40 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vdi3a-0007hs-4F for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:56:38 +0100 Received: from 158.75.2.83 ([158.75.2.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:56:38 +0100 Received: from jnareb by 158.75.2.83 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:56:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.75.2.83 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: =46innerty, 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 U= SA 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 trans= late. >> We don't usually get requests to go from git to rcs; it usually goe= s >> 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 gu= i > that uses rcs commands. Once we get everything synced we will explor= e > 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). --=20 Jakub Nar=C4=99bski