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Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] Support fetching from foreign VCSes

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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date
Jan 12, 2009, 05:48 UTC
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On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
> 
> > This supports a useful subset of the usual fetch logic, mostly in the
> > config file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
> 
> I like the direction this series is going.  In the longer term, it would
> be nice if we can have git-svn and git-cvsimport replaced with something
> like this.

That was my goal, although the only foreign system I currently use is Perforce.

> Is the current foreign vcs interface sufficiently rich to support git as a
> foreign scm by using fast-import and fast-export?

I think so, although it would be pretty strange, since it would generally have a whole lot of local data (a complete clone of any remote repository).

	-Daniel
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