On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > I am looking for documentation on how to hand-roll a conversion to Git, > but I keep getting lost in the maze of similar-looking man pages. Is > there a tutorial, howto, or perhaps even just a list of recommended man > pages to read on importing project changes to Git? > > I have projects of two different kinds that I need to import: > > 1. The "make a copy of the source code directory and edit the new copy" > source management system. I need to be able to import one directory at > a time, each describing a version controlled state. The date stamp on > the commits should probably be the most recent file in each directory. > > 2. A piece of software using PVCS (a RCS-like version control system > with added support for parallel development (using a locking model)). I > have a complete "trail file" which lists all commits done to the > repository in chronological order since the repository was created, and > can use that as a base. Since it has no concept of an atomic commit, I > need to semi-manually join commits by walking the trail file and > comparing lock sets, time stamps, commit messages and authors. > > I can probably make the output from (2) look like from (1), so I > basically just need to find a pointer to information on how to > (re-)create the history with Git. Take a look at git-fast-import. It should be relatively easy to write a small script that converts from either (1) or (2) to a stream of git-fast-import commands. 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
