On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Tim Chase <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2013-11-17 14:43, Kyle J. McKay wrote: >> Sounds like you want to write a 'git-remote-fossil' helper so you >> can do something like: >> >> git clone fossil::http://sqlite.org/src > > Pretty much. Or at least something akin to git-svn where one would do > > git fossil clone http://some.fossil.url/path/to/repo.fossil > # hack hack > git commit > # possibly some git-branch, git-merge, git-rebase, git-cherry-pick > # lather, rinse, repeat > git fossil push # or git fossil dcommit > > I've not played with the git+hg or git+bzr bridges to see if they'd > have a more useful interface that would better map to fossil. If so, > imagine that's what I typed above ;-) If you're looking at implementing this, please look at "git help remote-helpers" (or https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-remote-helpers.html ) which describes an infrastructure (in addition to fast-import/export) we have for interacting with foreign version control systems. A remote helper for fossil repos would allow you to consider the fossil repo as a git remote, and the usual git clone/fetch/pull/push commands for interacting with remote repos would Just Work against a fossil repo. I understand how you might want to model this on "git svn", since that is obviously the most popular interface between git and an other VCS, but I believe git-svn is not the best example for how to write these gateways nowadays. git-svn was written long before git remote-helpers existed, but I hope/believe that if it was written again today, it would use remote-helpers instead of implementing its own commands. git-remote-bzr and git-remote-hg in contrib/remote-helpers/ is the code that implements the git+bzr and git+hg bridges you mention above. Those would be useful reference points when implementing a git-remote-fossil helper. git-remote-mediawiki in contrib/mw-to-git/ might also be a useful example. ...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