# status of git interop with other VCS 4 messages from 2012-09-16 to 2012-09-17. Participants: Paul Wise, Ramkumar Ramachandra, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31550 ## Paul Wise, 2012-09-16 11:45 Subject: status of git interop with other VCS Message-ID: <1347795904.22408.20.camel@chianamo> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1347795904.22408.20.camel%40chianamo ``` Hi all, I thought I would summarise current status of interop between git and other remote VCSen. In particular I am interested in good git remote helpers for cvs, svn, hg, darcs and bzr. git-svn and the like are useful but git remote helpers are better because they map everything onto the git model better. cvs: there seems to have been a project but it was never merged: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=127279549623477&w=2 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/131620/focus=131632 svn: there was a gsoc project for this but it was never merged: http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SoC2011Projects#Remote_helper_for_Subversion_and_git-svn hg: there are a few projects for this, none are merged: git://github.com/SRabbelier/git.git http://marc.info/?l=git&m=134153749521450&w=2 darcs: can't find any project to add this, please let me know of one bzr: git-remote-bzr is part of bzr-git but it is quite buggy, hopefully this will improve over time though. -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ ``` ## Paul Wise, 2012-09-17 16:33 Subject: Re: status of git interop with other VCS Message-ID: <1347899601.1992.60.camel@chianamo> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1347899601.1992.60.camel%40chianamo In-Reply-To: <1347795904.22408.20.camel@chianamo> ``` On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 19:45 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > bzr: git-remote-bzr is part of bzr-git but it is quite buggy, > hopefully this will improve over time though. I've now learned that the main upstream for bzr-git is slowly stepping down from his involvement in Bazaar and Bazaar packaging, so if there is anyone interested in git-remote-bzr, now is the time to get involved. -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ ``` ## Ramkumar Ramachandra, 2012-09-17 16:51 Subject: Re: status of git interop with other VCS Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CALkWK0knJKGK%3DjD%3D_dBUn%2BidVSEs%2BKxwvQJWc7oS_BvzPR9jJw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1347795904.22408.20.camel@chianamo> ``` Hi Paul, Paul Wise wrote: > svn: there was a gsoc project for this but it was never merged: > > http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SoC2011Projects#Remote_helper_for_Subversion_and_git-svn I wouldn't give up on that yet. What is the status of fa/remote-helper? Ram ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2012-09-17 20:40 Subject: Re: status of git interop with other VCS Message-ID: <7vmx0otmbb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vmx0otmbb.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: > Hi Paul, > > Paul Wise wrote: >> svn: there was a gsoc project for this but it was never merged: >> >> http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SoC2011Projects#Remote_helper_for_Subversion_and_git-svn > > I wouldn't give up on that yet. What is the status of fa/remote-helper? An excerpt from recent "What's cooking": * fa/remote-svn (2012-08-28) 16 commits - Add a test script for remote-svn - remote-svn: add marks-file regeneration - Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing - remote-svn: add incremental import - remote-svn: Activate import/export-marks for fast-import - Create a note for every imported commit containing svn metadata - vcs-svn: add fast_export_note to create notes - Allow reading svn dumps from files via file:// urls - remote-svn, vcs-svn: Enable fetching to private refs - When debug==1, start fast-import with "--stats" instead of "--quiet" - Add documentation for the 'bidi-import' capability of remote-helpers - Connect fast-import to the remote-helper via pipe, adding 'bidi-import' capability - Add argv_array_detach and argv_array_free_detached - Add svndump_init_fd to allow reading dumps from arbitrary FDs - Add git-remote-testsvn to Makefile and .gitignore - Implement a remote helper for svn in C (this branch is used by fa/vcs-svn.) A GSoC project. Looked promising. Waiting for comments from mentors and stakeholders. * fa/vcs-svn (2012-08-28) 4 commits - vcs-svn: remove repo_tree - vcs-svn/svndump: rewrite handle_node(), begin|end_revision() - vcs-svn/svndump: restructure node_ctx, rev_ctx handling - svndump: move struct definitions to .h (this branch uses fa/remote-svn.) A GSoC project. Looked promising. Waiting for comments from mentors and stakeholders. ```