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Importing from RTC to GIT

Subject: Importing from RTC to GIT

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3 messages between Sep 3, 2014 and Feb 1, 2015.

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Jeremy Davis· Sep 3, 2014, 18:22 UTC · lore

We are currently investigating whether to move from RTC (source control) to GIT and wanted to find out if there is more information available than what we have found in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23928927/how-to-migrate-from-rtc-jazz-to-git

We really need to preserve the version history of all artifacts and wanted to see if there is an import utility available to do this.  If not, we can go through and import off of our milestone baselines in separate workspaces but this can be fairly time consuming for us to grab all needed baselines that we will want to preserve.  We are not planning on archiving RTC so getting the history out for all versioned artifacts is extremely important.

Thanks, Jeremy Davis

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brian m. carlson· Sep 4, 2014, 12:55 UTC · re: Jeremy Davis · lore

Re: Importing from RTC to GIT

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 12:22:20PM -0600, Jeremy Davis wrote:

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> We really need to preserve the version history of all artifacts and
> wanted to see if there is an import utility available to do this.  If
> not, we can go through and import off of our milestone baselines in
> separate workspaces but this can be fairly time consuming for us to
> grab all needed baselines that we will want to preserve.  We are not
> planning on archiving RTC so getting the history out for all versioned
> artifacts is extremely important.

There's a git fast-import command. If you can find a way to make RTC output data in that format, either by using a pre-existing script or writing one yourself, git will happily import it.

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Joker· Feb 1, 2015, 11:50 UTC · re: Jeremy Davis · lore

Re: Importing from RTC to GIT

Its the more or less the same response as I wrote in the stackoverflow thread. To begin with, we run into the same issue...

We also wanted to keep our history and didnt found anything. So we started to create a python script, which automates the process to migrate RTC SCM Stream by Stream to GIT.

The script(s) can be found here: https://github.com/WtfJoke/rtc2git

It doesnt work with git fast import, though. But its a possible way to migrate your components. You can read how it works on the stackoverflow-post or in the project description. The script is not finished yet, but in a good state. With that I was able to migrate some components sucesfully already (the rtc commands take some time for completion, therefore it takes quite a lot of time to migrate stuff).

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