From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:08:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Migrating from StarTeam to GIT
Message-ID: <20090220030856.GD22419@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <89b129c60902190919p2cdbe349o4a2a659617dae341@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:19:28AM -0600, Sean Kelley wrote:

> Are there ways to migrate views in StarTeam to a DVCS like GIT? Anyone
> have experience with this?

Wow, I've never even heard of StarTeam. AFAIK, there is no converter
already (as in, I have never heard of one, and searching the list
archive turns up nothing).

Getting history data into git is usually easy. If you can generate a
series of snapshots, at worst you can script around commiting each one.
Or you can write to the "git fast-import" input language, which is,
well...fast.

The tricky part will be getting your data out of StarTeam, which is
apparently not very easy:

  http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-07/0720.shtml

-Peff