Re: Migrating from StarTeam to GIT

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 20, 2009, 09:11 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902201005190.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090220030856.GD22419@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote:

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> 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.

And you can learn by example: "git -p fast-export HEAD" ;-)

> 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

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTeam, there is a cross-platform Java client; I'd try to hack that, using a combination of "unzip -p $JAR META-INF/MANIFEST.MF", javap, and good luck ;-)

/me has an idea and goes off Googling

Yes. There is no need to hack it: http://techpubs.borland.com/starteam/2008r2/en/SDK_Documentation/api/index.html

>From a quick glance, it appears that com.starbase.starteam.Project should

be the entry point.

Ciao, Dscho