Re: rcs

From: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 5, 2013, 14:56 UTC
Message-ID: <5279071B.2070309@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <B49EE6A27F1B0642B4D12AD9C064E8C7B072E5@SOARCPRVSBEU000.regnet2.soar.ns>

Finnerty, James M Mr CTR USA USASOC-SOAR wrote

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> Jeff King [mailto:peff@peff.net]wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:35:21AM -0500, Finnerty, James M Mr CTR USA USASOC-SOAR wrote:
>>
>>> Hi. I'm going to attempt to import a git database into Razor which is
>>> linux rcs based. Does the linux version of git use rcs ?
>>
>> No, the formats are completely different, and you will have to translate.

 >> We don't usually get requests to go from git to rcs; it usually goes
 >> the other way. :)

 >
 >    Thanks.  We have several systems using Razor right now. So we are
 > trying to get all the systems into one CM system. Razor is just a gui
 > that uses rcs commands. Once we get everything synced we will explore
 > our options for a complete development CM system.

The problem with using RCS as sync (as base) is that it is least powerfull of VCS, and as far as I know do not offer place to store extra information, so conversion from Git to RSS will lose some information (committership, signed commits and signed merges, signed tags, etc.).

There is a tool to create fast-import stream from RCS repository, but I am not sure if there is reverse (fast-import is a common intermediate fairly VCS_agnostic representation used for fast conversion between different version control systems).

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Jakub Narębski