From: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:57:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52B02DFF.5010408@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACPiFC+bopf32cgDcQcVpL5vW=3KxmSP8Oh1see4KduQ1BNcPw@mail.gmail.com>
Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Eric S. Raymond<esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
>> You'll have to remind me what you mean by "incremental" here. Possibly
>> it's something cvs-fast-export could support.
>
> User can
>
> - run a cvs to git import at time T, resulting in repo G
> - make commits to cvs repo
> - run cvs to git import at time T1, pointed to G, and the import tool
>
> will only add the new commits found in cvs between T and T1.
I wonder if we can add support for incremental import once, for all
VCS supporting fast-export, in one place, namely at the remote-helper.
I don't know details, so I don't know if it is possible; certainly
unstable fast-export output would be a problem, unless some tricks
are used (like remembering mappings between versions).
--
Jakub Narębski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-17 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-12 0:17 I have end-of-lifed cvsps Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 3:38 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 4:26 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 13:42 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 17:17 ` Andreas Krey
2013-12-12 17:26 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 18:35 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 18:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 19:08 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 19:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 19:48 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 20:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 22:51 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-12 23:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-13 2:35 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-13 3:38 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 18:15 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-12 18:53 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-17 10:57 ` Jakub Narębski [this message]
2013-12-17 11:18 ` Johan Herland
2013-12-17 14:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-17 17:52 ` Johan Herland
2013-12-17 18:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-17 21:26 ` Johan Herland
2013-12-17 22:41 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 23:44 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-12-19 1:11 ` Johan Herland
2013-12-19 9:31 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-12-19 15:26 ` Johan Herland
2013-12-19 16:18 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-12-19 4:06 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-19 9:43 ` Michael Haggerty
2013-12-17 14:07 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-17 19:58 ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-17 21:02 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 0:02 ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-18 0:21 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 15:39 ` Jakub Narębski
2013-12-18 16:23 ` incremental fast-import and marks (Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps) Jonathan Nieder
2013-12-18 16:27 ` I have end-of-lifed cvsps Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 16:53 ` Martin Langhoff
2013-12-18 19:54 ` John Keeping
2013-12-18 20:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 20:47 ` Kent R. Spillner
2013-12-18 17:46 ` Jeff King
2013-12-18 19:16 ` Eric S. Raymond
2013-12-18 0:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-18 0:25 ` Eric S. Raymond
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