Re: Import ClearCaase with history?

From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2010, 12:13 UTC
Message-ID: <p2k2cfc40321003310513tf6adbef1p69ac01c8b1472c59@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1270035189.2785.11.camel@chumley>

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:33 PM, David Hagood <david.hagood@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I am trying to drag where I work into a more modern software development
> process, but I am getting resistance from one division that has a large
> amount of history for some projects in a Clearcase repository. If I
> could show them that we could import all that history into git, it would
> go a long way to removing that resistance.
>
> I've seen programs that purport to import Subversion (which is also
> good, as they also are using Subversion for other projects....) but do
> any such programs exist for Clearcase?
>
> I know that, in theory, it would be possible to
>  for all checkins to Clearcase
>     check out of Clearcase
>     check into git
>  done
>
> but that would take an incredibly long time in practice, wouldn't it?

I have no idea whether this is any good, but you might look at:

   http://www.clearvision-cm.com/clearvision-products/clearcase-and-git-bridge-cc2git/ash_flypage.tpl.html

I am sceptical that the performance could be anything other than glacial but I don't have any experience with it...

jon.

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