[ANNOUNCE] darcs-fast-export

Hi,

I'm happy to announce a small project I recently stated to work on. It's a darcs backend for fast importers.

This means that it allows you to export patches/commits from a darcs repo and import to any version control system where a fast importer is implemented.

Current features:

- According to its name, it tries to be really fast, even for large
  repos.

- Independent. It has been tested with git fast-import, hg fastimport
  and bzr fast-import. (Let me know if you know other fast-importers!)

- It supports both (darcs1 and darcs2) darcs repo formats.

- It supports incremental conversions.

More info on the homepage:

http://vmiklos.hu/project/darcs-fast-export/

Including a list of alternatives, where I try to compare them to darcs-fast-export.

Any feedback or comment is appreciated.

I'm not on the bazaar and the mercurial list, so there please CC me.

Thanks.

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Hello Miklos Vajna:

Thanks for announcing this project.

I looked at the "alternatives" section, and you wrote:

"tailor is a nice any2any VCS converter, but the end result can easily differ to the original repo because tailor replays all the changesets itself, while darcs-fast-export just leaves this task to darcs."

If you can show an example of the end result differing from the original repo then that is a bug in tailor, and please report it!

Thanks.

Regards,

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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 07:39:26PM -0700, zooko <zooko@zooko.com> wrote:

Example:

http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=commit;h=b75189e1689d268f7efa4610ff12c48a67221dc0

Original darcs repo:

http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/archive/other/darcs/frugalware-current/

If you have a look at the history of the tailor darcs repo, you can see I contributed a number of fixes later to fix these (where 'these' means the ones which were pointed out by this particular conversion only) issues.