# git base64 repo conversion tool

1 messages from 2005-04-13 to 2005-04-13. Participants: H. Peter Anvin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4

## H. Peter Anvin, 2005-04-13 22:48

Subject: git base64 repo conversion tool
Message-ID: <425DA1D0.5080104@zytor.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/425DA1D0.5080104%40zytor.com

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I realized writing a git repository conversion tool is actually quite 
trivial in Perl, so I wrote one up and tried it on the git repo included 
in the git-0.04 tarball.  It fsck-cache's cleanly on both the nonflat 
and flat base64 patches, at least after I had fixed a minor bug in 
fsck-cache in the nonflat patch (now uploaded.)

It takes an source and a target object directory as arguments.  By 
default it is set up for non-flat representation; change $flat = 0; to 
$flat = 1; near the top to use flat representation.

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/gitcvt

Comments appreciated, of course.

	-hpa


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