From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] Support fetching from foreign VCSes Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:33:35 -0800 Message-ID: <7vfxjpmhow.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Barkalow X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 12 02:35:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMBho-0007Je-Er for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:35:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752120AbZALBdl (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:33:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752071AbZALBdl (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:33:41 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:33427 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752069AbZALBdk (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:33:40 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B9088FCEB; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:33:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AFFEA8FCE9; Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:33:36 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Daniel Barkalow's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:12:10 -0500 (EST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 09E5AC10-E049-11DD-AF65-5720C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Daniel Barkalow writes: > This supports a useful subset of the usual fetch logic, mostly in the > config file. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow 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.