Re: Hand-rolling migration to Git

[Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se>]

Johannes Schindelin:

>> Take a look at git-fast-import. It should be relatively easy to write a 
>> small script that converts from either (1) or (2) to a stream of 
>> git-fast-import commands.

> Yeah.  To get inspiration how the scripts should look like, read 
> contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl, or look at 
> http://repo.or.cz/w/fast-export.git

I've played a bit with git-fast-import, but I sort of failed to get
something working for PVCS export (see other thread).

The import-tars.perl script, however, was a very good idea. The
simplest solutions for the multiple-directories source I had was just
to tar it up and feed through import-tars.perl. After importing it into
Git and repacking it with a suitably large --window argument, I had a
Git repository of 64 megabytes, down from the four or so gigabytes of
uncompressed directories. That did include removing some object files,
though (but keeping some .exe's).

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