From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sean Kelley Subject: Migrating from StarTeam to GIT Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:19:28 -0600 Message-ID: <89b129c60902190919p2cdbe349o4a2a659617dae341@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 19 18:25:48 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 1LaCa3-0003TT-Ge for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:20:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753539AbZBSRTa (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:19:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753396AbZBSRTa (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:19:30 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.231]:59032 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753506AbZBSRT3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:19:29 -0500 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id g37so501078rvb.1 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:19:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oi/0geAYeOYoeTx3CyF/h2UmpNpxC5Sl6Q5tjbMtqVk=; b=KrXqx2GxFddNRmqC5QPVWhcEo8gSSQW+Bz3ywAAs7ncl8Zf7gDjtTpQjlMAZD6CHVy e8l+OQfcIVHlRV0zXyJPSgavce6YkYF6bClYhCfeQfLvU7IudMIa5LNDfttIJ9W4syxD LQfU0f+1Ym3ltNUbyTEeYmipaAmsAG1b1HpOw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=sWzu5M3x7WytEnbkrwyXjwz25mLZN2KmtAa5gH7KJv2JbzQkLeSdEiuUU5wEyBBPv9 AFP5fhEA9ox2GmneEcHUX/4dNWTJ9skrqJrdFZnTSC1OwEcsYze19uigZAVyzyXWF65i uwWvEL6Df6G8gX6U8zwjha6p0kn77BAh7ltKA= Received: by 10.141.115.6 with SMTP id s6mr2338292rvm.186.1235063968414; Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:19:28 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: StarTeam has got to be the horrendous version control system I have ever encountered in a company. StarTeam has this notion of file sharing between what they refer to as views. Basically a view in StarTeam can be thought of as a repository for purposes of conversion and it can share individual files from other views. It can then branch the files as well. Imagine, just imagine the mess of many many views stringing files amongst each other. It's like a version control system designed by my four year old with a few balls of yarn strung all over the house. Hideous, I know. I have avoided using StarTeam myself but others within the company are looking for strategies of moving to GIT or possibly Mercurial. My crew uses Mercurial and started using GIT but we do embedded Linux for the most part. Are there ways to migrate views in StarTeam to a DVCS like GIT? Anyone have experience with this? Sean