Jonathan Fine <jfine@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi > > This it to let you know that I'm writing (in Python) a script that > places the content of CTAN into a git repository. > https://bitbucket.org/jfine/python-ctantools I hope that you meant "repositories" (plural) here, one per tool, rather than putting all of CTAN into single Git repository. > I'm working from the TeX Collection DVDs that are published each year > by the TeX user groups, which contain a snapshot of CTAN (about > 100,000 files occupying 4Gb), which means I have to unzip folders and > do a few other things. There is 'contrib/fast-import/import-zips.py' in git.git repository. If you are not using it, or its equivalent, it might be worth checking out. > CTAN is the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. CTAN keeps only the > latest version of each file, but old CTAN snapshots will provide many > earlier versions. There was similar effort done in putting CPAN (Comprehensive _Perl_ Archive Network) in Git, hosting repositories on GitHub[1], by the name of gitPAN, see e.g.: "The gitPAN Import is Complete" http://perlisalive.com/articles/36 [1]: https://github.com/gitpan > I'm working on putting old CTAN files into modern version > control. Martin Scharrer is working in the other direction. He's > putting new files added to CTAN into Mercurial. > http://ctanhg.scharrer-online.de/ Nb. thanks to tools such as git-hg and fast-import / fast-export we have quite good interoperability and convertability between Git and Mercurial. P.S. I'd point to reposurgeon tool, which can be used to do fixups after import, but it would probably won't work on such large (set of) repositories. P.P.S. Can you forward it to comp.text.tex? -- Jakub Narębski -- 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