From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Switching to bzr: what remains to be done?
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:59:03 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877i6a9nag.fsf@xemacs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvej0iwjao.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier writes:
> Another issue that AFAIK nobody has worked on, is how are we going to
> handle the Gnus<->Emacs synchronization in the future. I expect this to
> be doable somehow, maybe by still going through Arch, but of course it
> would probably be preferable to do it directly within Bzr, and in any
> case it will require for someone to figure it out.
Sorry I can't help with the actual work, but I have some related
experience to describe.
cvs2svn did a great job for me converting the XEmacs repo to git's
fastimport format. The XEmacs repo is an unholy mess, too, I was
quite surprised at how well cvs2svn handled this. It has some kind of
update facility (AIUI fastimport is just a format for describing
commits). I'm not sure if bzr has bulletproof fastimporter yet, but I
know this has come up on the list lately. Anyway, I recommend a look
at cvs2svn, and maybe encouraging bzr work on fastimport.
tailor is another option, but I've found tailor to require a lot of
care and feeding, at least at first. The receiving backend was
Mercurial which was implemented as a plugin from the libraries, not by
invoking hg itself. However the command line interface is more
stable, which seems to be the source of my difficulties.
> We have lived without any renaming or merge info in our CVS,
Going through git or another VCS that does automatic rename detection
might be an option.
> Also, being able to update the Bzr repository incrementally from
> subsequent updates in the CVS is not indispensable, but it would
> be helpful to make the transition easier.
I think pretty much all popular tools can do this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-08 18:59 Switching to bzr: what remains to be done? Karl Fogel
2008-12-08 19:29 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-08 19:51 ` Karl Fogel
2008-12-08 21:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-11 22:43 ` Karl Fogel
2008-12-08 19:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-09 0:59 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
[not found] ` <878wqqf8gr.fsf@notengoamigos.org>
2008-12-09 3:16 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <87hc5ef9mf.fsf@notengoamigos.org>
2008-12-09 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-09 9:33 ` Andreas Schwab
[not found] ` <87zlj5dvij.fsf@notengoamigos.org>
2008-12-09 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-09 2:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-11 20:23 ` Karl Fogel
2008-12-17 22:59 ` Karl Fogel
2008-12-18 8:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-12-18 16:28 ` Karl Fogel
2008-12-19 8:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-12-19 8:29 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-12-18 20:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-01-05 0:00 ` Tom Tromey
2009-01-05 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-05 2:42 ` Tom Tromey
2009-01-05 4:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-06 0:01 ` Richard M Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-08 16:32 Karl Fogel
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