Re: Switching CEDET from CVS to a Distributed VCS.

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

On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> I believe Bazaar now supports fastimport format in both directions.
>
> Interaction between git and Bazaar probably means you lose/munge
> VCS-specific metadata (Bazaar cares about revision numbers while git
> doesn't support them at all, and the revision ID formats are
> timestamp-specific in each VCS, so converting those in a
> roundtrippable way would require great care) in each direction, but
> with minimal care you should be able to preserve the history dag and
> core meta data (author information).

fast-import (bzr->git at least) keeps an index to facilitate fast  
incremental exports.
Suppose one has a commit in the git repo to be committed to the Bzr  
repo, would it be possible to

1. convert a git patch (git-format-patch) to a Bazaar merge directive?
2. use fast-import/export to export just the patch?