Re: Bazaar to Git status

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> 
> > You haven't heard much about it because the hard work is all done. I
> > have the scripts ready to go and need only about eight hours' notice
> > before pushing the button.
> 
> I'm pretty sure there was a list of other things that needed to be done,
> beside "replace old revision references". I hope someone was keeping a
> list of the various items that were requested, so that we don't have to
> go through it all over again.
> 
> Eg what will replace bzr --fixes, bzrmerge.el, vc-git.el improvements,
> etc, etc.

I've been maintaining that list. It's the file transition.txt in the 
conversion-machinery repo.

To the best of my knowledge, the only major un-done task for before the 
conversion is this one:

* Better cross-VCS integration of smerge in vc.el.  Here are Stefan's
  requirements:

 - Improve vc-git.el so that it can automatically enable smerge-mode when
   opening a conflicted file and (probably conditional on a config var)
   mark the file as "not conflicted any more" when saving with no
   remaining diff3 markers.
   This currently works in vc-bzr.el (and vc-svn.el as well, IIRC).

 - Improve vc-git.el with vc-git-conflicted-files so that
   vc-find-conflicted-files works for Git as well.

  See Rüdiger Sonderfeld's patch proposal:
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg01038.html

What really needs to happen here, I think, is for the smerge support 
to be moved into the core vc code rather than being a set of disjoint
per-VC kluges.

I reckon this to be about a day and a half of work.  I'll schedule 
it when we start seriously discussing a cutover date.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>