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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] Support fetching from foreign VCSes
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:33:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfxjpmhow.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0901110335520.19665@iabervon.org> (Daniel Barkalow's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:12:10 -0500 (EST)")

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> This supports a useful subset of the usual fetch logic, mostly in the
> config file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>

I like the direction this series is going.  In the longer term, it would
be nice if we can have git-svn and git-cvsimport replaced with something
like this.

Is the current foreign vcs interface sufficiently rich to support git as a
foreign scm by using fast-import and fast-export?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-12  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-11 20:12 [RFC PATCH 3/3] Support fetching from foreign VCSes Daniel Barkalow
2009-01-12  1:33 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-01-12  5:48   ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-01-12 15:42     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-01-12 18:19       ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-01-12 19:09         ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-01-12 19:38           ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-02-01  2:20 ` Johan Herland
2009-02-01  2:35   ` Daniel Barkalow

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