[Monotone-devel] Re: cvs_import failure

[Hendrik Boom]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:40:46 +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:

> Daniel Carosone wrote:
>> The latter seems to be of the most general utility, given current
>> volumes and efforts of other projects (assuming the format contains
>> what we need and isn't completely horrible).
> 
> The git-fast-import format is quite good and well-documented [1].
> 
> Markus Wanner wrote:
>> Note that git has the ability to represent more than two ancestors for
>> a merged revision, which monotone does not. Not that it's an often used
>> feature, but IIRC cvs2git is one of its users. (I vaguely remember
>> discussing these issues with Michael Haggerty, author of cvs2svn. See
>> that project's mailing list).
> 
> cvs2svn/cvs2git etc. has a setting to limit merges to two parents.  So
> this should not be a problem.
> 
> address@hidden wrote:
>> with all these cvs2* programs around, it might be useful to isolate
>> their common core (the cvs part and the 2 part) from the * part.
>> Incresed modularity.  ANy chance that such factoring would spread to
>> the others and overall maintenance costs?
> 
> These programs (cvs2svn, cvs2git, cvs2bzr, and cvs2hg) are all part of
> the cvs2svn project [2] and share 90% of their code (namely the hard
> part, which is figuring out the CVS history).

Then this set of programs looks like one good place to start.  Are they 
each one-shot conversions, or can they update the target repository if 
things are still being checked into the CVS repository?  One thing I.m 
cinvinced of is that not everyone will be ready to check in their works-
in-progress simultaneously.

First step would seem to be to look at those two references.
 

> 
> Michael
> 
> [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fast-import.html
> [2] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/

Aha!  Isn't tigris.org the place to find software that automatically 
chops big test cases into small ones?

-- hendrik

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