From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:51:22 GMT Subject: Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070709173720.GS29994@genesis.frugalware.org> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, VMiklos wrote: > > > I think bk can export to CVS and then git can import from CVS. > > i think so That's how I did my kernel history, and cvsps has a special "BK mode", which knows to trust the CVS timestamps more when importing from a BK CVS archive (since the timestamps will then be exact). That said, the quality of the result isn't stellar. The CVS export will obviously linearize the BK information, so you do lose things. So there's actually a better kernel BK->git archive around which doesn't do that, but that was done apparently from a custom database, so it's not reproducible. Linus