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From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
To: David Hagood <david.hagood@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Import ClearCaase with history?
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 00:13:57 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p2k2cfc40321003310513tf6adbef1p69ac01c8b1472c59@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1270035189.2785.11.camel@chumley>

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:33 PM, David Hagood <david.hagood@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to drag where I work into a more modern software development
> process, but I am getting resistance from one division that has a large
> amount of history for some projects in a Clearcase repository. If I
> could show them that we could import all that history into git, it would
> go a long way to removing that resistance.
>
> I've seen programs that purport to import Subversion (which is also
> good, as they also are using Subversion for other projects....) but do
> any such programs exist for Clearcase?
>
> I know that, in theory, it would be possible to
>  for all checkins to Clearcase
>     check out of Clearcase
>     check into git
>  done
>
> but that would take an incredibly long time in practice, wouldn't it?

I have no idea whether this is any good, but you might look at:

   http://www.clearvision-cm.com/clearvision-products/clearcase-and-git-bridge-cc2git/ash_flypage.tpl.html

I am sceptical that the performance could be anything other than
glacial but I don't have any experience with it...

jon.


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 11:33 Import ClearCaase with history? David Hagood
2010-03-31 12:13 ` Jon Seymour [this message]
2010-03-31 12:16 ` Charles O'Farrell
2010-03-31 15:39 ` Peter Baumann
2010-03-31 16:09   ` Avery Pennarun

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