Hi, On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Johan Herland wrote: > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Peter Karlsson wrote: > > > 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. Yeah. To get inspiration how the scripts should look like, read contrib/fast-import/import-tars.perl, or look at http://repo.or.cz/w/fast-export.git Hth, Dscho -- 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
