On Monday 27 July 2009, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Johan Herland wrote: > > This series is a first draft towards implementing a foreign VCS > > helper program for CVS. > > > > It is based on the 'db/foreign-scm' and 'jh/notes' topics in 'pu'. > > As such, this patch series should apply cleanly to current 'pu'. > > > > The first 4 patches supply the necessary parts of Daniel Barkalow's > > foreign-scm topic that has not yet been merged to 'pu' (i.e. > > everything remaining in Daniel's original patch series, except the > > p4-specific stuff). > > I've got some changes to this series in the works; I just made a few > changes to share the transport-side code for interacting with the > helper with the transport-side code for interacting with > native-object helpers. Mainly, this means starting each line in the > "list" response with "?" to indicate that you don't know the hash, > since the protocol is trying to be compatible with cases where you do > know. No problem. I'm actually considering whether I should rewrite the CVS helper to a full-fledged git-shim (btw, thanks for the shim work; it looks really promising). I would still probably have to use git-fast-import, but I would have more control over the fast-import process (e.g. by closing the fast-import process myself, I could simplify the code maintaining the marks database). With the git-shim feature already having found an excellent use case (the HTTP fetcher), how do you see the future for the foreign-scm topic? I like the idea of rewriting foreign-scm on top of git-shim, but is there anything substantial _left_ in foreign-scm after such a rewrite? > > Next, there are 3 patches tweaking and expanding the git-vcs API > > (with corresponding implementations in the foreign transport code) > > to adjust for the CVS helper's needs. > > These make sense to me. I assume you're planning to support exporting > in some ways, but haven't got it working yet? Indeed. The current version is only a first draft that fetches successfully from simple toy repositories (but probably not many real-world CVS repos). I hope to support both fetching and pushing to real-world CVS repos at some point. Have fun! :) ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html