Re: Team Coherence to Git conversion

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jun 30, 2009, 14:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20090630144128.GR11191@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <h2cmv6$agp$1@ger.gmane.org>

Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@gmail.com> wrote:

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> We have a couple (actually around 20) projects sitting in Team
> Coherence repositories. Luckily they have very little history. Before
> I joined the company nobody used revision control software - just
> simple zip archives once a week (if that many).
>
> Does anybody know of a tool that can convert a TC repository to
> Git? TC seems to be dying a slow dead, and I don't want our code
> to get trapped in proprietary software we can't access, a few years
> down the line.

Huh. TC reminds me of PVCS Version Manager. Lots of hype on the web page, but a tool from the early 1980s that still can't do anything useful. Hell, it might be a rebranded PVCS VM.

No, there aren't any existing import tools from TC, in fact probably nobody here has even heard of TC before. You are on your own to write an import tool.

You might want to look at using git-fast-import to handle the git side of the conversion, but you'll need to write your own script to mine the data out of TC and format it for git-fast-import. Look at contrib/fast-import for some examples, and the fast-import man page is rather extensive.

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Shawn.