Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 00:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20071016000359.GT27899@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <4713FA4A.5090501@bluelane.com>

Pete/Piet Delaney <pete@bluelane.com> wrote:

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> I imported the CVS repository to git and it worked great. Since all
> of our other repository are in bitkeeper the management would like to
> stick with CVS. With git apparently still being weak in the area of
> supporting difftool on different version that seems somewhat reasonable
> for the time being.

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> I was curious why the difftool paradigm hasn't been integrated into
> the git GUIs. It's very comfortable and I think it has been used in
> other source code control systems, for example Sun Microsystems.

What's difftool?  What's so great about it?

Forgive my ignorance but it has been many years since I last used BitKeeper and even when I did use it I didn't get into many of the features it offered. Its entirely possible I never learned about difftool.

I've never found that I cannot get the information I need out of Git when I need it. Actually I've found it to be the easiest VCS to get data out of, beating CVS, Perforce, BitKeeper, SVN, etc. hands down. Of course I also know Git better than I know those tools...

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Shawn.