Re: Switching CEDET from CVS to a Distributed VCS.

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

On Jun 28, 2009, at 2:17 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>> 1. convert a git patch (git-format-patch) to a Bazaar merge  
>> directive?
>
> This is software, anything's possible.

I looked into it and it's fairly easy to do.  It would be for local  
use rather than for review by e-mail.

>  Useful?  Probably not.  I
> don't see why you'd want to do anything other than maintain pairs of
> bzr-git bidi mirrored branches.

> Seriously, if you're a git aficianado, set up the bidirectional
> mirror, create a pushthrough script that pushes from the git repo to
> the local bzr repo, and on from the local bzr repo to Emacs Central,
> and (my best guess) be happy.

This would be the ideal case and very, very convenient.  I hope there  
will be such a mirror [on savannah if possible], but I'm not sure how  
it would handle merge failures, assuming that this sync script runs  
periodically and without user intervention.  The more frequently the  
git mirror is updated, the less likely it is that a git->bzr merge  
fails.   If it does fail, I'm not sure how to handle it well.  That's  
why I didn't pursue the idea so far.