From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git to Bzr - what works? Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:20:47 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87wqw9gagg.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <5029AB54.8020804@dancol.org> <83fw7pjqav.fsf@gnu.org> <83obmcuk3k.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4mjjvhz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87623vmdqb.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87hanezl2e.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> <87ehiiw9zf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356204072 29831 80.91.229.3 (22 Dec 2012 19:21:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:21:12 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 22 20:21:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmUdT-0006z8-3I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:21:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35524 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmUdF-0001To-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:21:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43526) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmUdA-0001Tj-EO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:21:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmUd4-0003rD-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48936) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmUd4-0003r7-HU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:21:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmUdE-0006eY-1v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:21:12 +0100 Original-Received: from c-65-96-148-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([65.96.148.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:21:12 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-65-96-148-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:21:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-65-96-148-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/FsogTO5UMyYEsraXUCkNXyW8K8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155779 Archived-At: On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:24:20 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote: SJT> Bastien writes: >> If FSF cannot have someone to do the work Ted describes, >> maybe this could be a nice GSoC project for 2013? SJT> It's not a GSoC project. Many man-months have been spent on the SJT> problem (Lele Gaifax's Tailor, work by the Bazaar developers, plus SJT> work by the various projects on making the git-import format more SJT> generic), and there's no satisfactory solution yet. It might be SJT> somewhat easier with a specific pair in mind, but there's good reason SJT> to believe that Bazaar is the most difficult because of its much SJT> richer metadata (including tracking both directories and few SJT> "containers"). I really think it's a job, not a technical problem to be solved. Katsumi Yamaoka does it for Gnus. He has good procedures in place for synchronizing Gnus' Git repo with Emacs' Bazaar repo. Ted