From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:03:59 GMT Subject: Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git Message-ID: <20071016000359.GT27899@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <4713FA4A.5090501@bluelane.com> Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > 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. ... > 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... -- Shawn.