From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switching CEDET from CVS to a Distributed VCS. Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:48:27 +0900 Message-ID: <87r5x8xl04.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <1245882173.24086.14.camel@projectile.siege-engine.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245952105 6284 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2009 17:48:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cedet-devel@lists.sf.net, "Eric M. Ludlam" , Lennart Borgman , Emacs-Devel devel To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 25 19:48:17 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MJt3Y-0003lp-Rx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:48:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55130 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJt3Y-0007lQ-7x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJt3K-0007Y9-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJt3F-0007Qk-Uj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35412 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJt3F-0007QR-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:52272) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJt3D-0006SG-Es; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:47:55 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D4F8216; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:47:46 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 258281A3868; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:48:27 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 5bbff3553494 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111727 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Bazaar is, mostly likely, better than CVS however. 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).