From: Jakub Narębski Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:56:27 GMT Subject: Re: rcs Message-ID: <5279071B.2070309@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Finnerty, James M Mr CTR USA USASOC-SOAR wrote > 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). -- Jakub Narębski