Re: darcs2git.py - convert darcs repository using gfi

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Feb 13, 2007, 22:42 UTC
Message-ID: <45D23EC6.9000806@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20070212011401.GK31488@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce escreveu:

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>> The python script attached is a try at providing a sane
>> conversion from Darcs to GIT.  It tries to map darcs conflict
>> resolutions onto git branch merges.
> 
> Impressive.

If anyone's interested I've hacked at it some more, and the result is at

  http://repo.or.cz/w/darcs2git.git

I've further improved the script so it generates nicer bifurcations, and does the conversion more incrementally as possible, and can be considered fast (as far as any darcs project can be called fast)

I've successfully converted a project containing 3000 patches with it.

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> This is harder than it sounds.  fast-import internally is built
> around the assumption of a branch, which has a name, and which lives
> in the branch LRU.  With the "from" command restriction lifted
> you can just import every single commit onto the same hardcoded
> branch name (e.g. DARCS_HEAD) then delete it when you are done
> (e.g. rm .git/DARCS_HEAD).  That's basically the same thing as an

will this be in git v1.5 ?

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