From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:48:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] Support fetching from foreign VCSes
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0901120041260.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxjpmhow.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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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