Re: [Monotone-devel] Commit a child of 2 parents

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:31:15PM -0800, Justin Patrin wrote:
> On 1/15/06, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> > If you do go the external program direction, it might be worthwhile
> > to see if it can be made somewhat general; most of the code involved
> > in importing from BK is probably the same as the code involved in
> > importing from any other DAG-history, repo-as-branch VCS (and there
> > are a number of these, now).
> 
> I know tailor has been mentioned before I this thread but I thought
> I'd mention that I know some work has been done getting it to work
> with monotone. If it's not in the offical release try asking in the
> OpenEmbedded IRC channel or on its mailing list.

As I understand, tailor does work with monotone as both a source and a
target; but tailor can only handle linear histories.  Even if
transferring from one DAG VCS to another, it has to throw away
everything except a single linear subgraph.

This could presumably be fixed.  I don't know if that would be more or
less work than starting from scratch.  (Presumably even if starting
from scratch, one could steal their VCS backend codes where useful.)

-- Nathaniel

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