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gateway status?

Subject: gateway status?

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5 messages between May 15, 2006 and May 18, 2006.

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David Lang· May 15, 2006, 18:26 UTC · lore

I seem to remember seeing discussion of gateways to cvs/svn that would let a project use a git repository and allow clients to use cvs/svn clients to retreive data.

am I remembering correctly, and are these tools ready for production use? the popfile project is getting ready to abandon sourceforge and move to self-hosting, but before I suggest that they use git I need to know the current status of these projects (I think the ability to export directly into the other interfaces is a significant advantage)

David Lang

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Martin Langhoff· May 16, 2006, 13:09 UTC · re: David Lang · lore

Re: gateway status?

On 5/16/06, David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:

> I seem to remember seeing discussion of gateways to cvs/svn that would let
> a project use a git repository and allow clients to use cvs/svn clients to
> retreive data.

David,

I suspect you might be thinking of git-cvsserver. The code has no known bugs, but is has only seen limited use by in-house dev teams.

A good measure is to run an import of the current cvs project (I would try both git-cvsimport and parsecvs) and then get a checkout via git-cvsserver.

Works great with traditional cvs cli and well behaved clients (TortoiseCVS).

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> am I remembering correctly, and are these tools ready for production use?
> the popfile project is getting ready to abandon sourceforge and move to
> self-hosting, but before I suggest that they use git I need to know the
> current status of these projects (I think the ability to export directly
> into the other interfaces is a significant advantage)

Moodle (a project I hack on) is in a similar situation, specially after the SF.net debacle with CVS. It is very likely that it will move to git with git-cvsserver providing "anon cvs" and cvs over ssh to a very limited set of people with commit rights but no development knowledge (translators, etc). So there is a path forward.

cheers,

martin

Yann Dirson· May 18, 2006, 22:07 UTC · re: Martin Langhoff · lore

tailor (Was: gateway status?)

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:09:19AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> On 5/16/06, David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com> wrote:
> >I seem to remember seeing discussion of gateways to cvs/svn that would let
> >a project use a git repository and allow clients to use cvs/svn clients to
> >retreive data.
> 
> I suspect you might be thinking of git-cvsserver. The code has no
> known bugs, but is has only seen limited use by in-house dev teams.

Another tool that I don't see mentionned often here is tailor, which has the ability to act as a gatway between git and a good selection of other SCMs, including cvs and svn. I have not yet tried it with git though, so any comments from people having shaked it a bit would be useful :)

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Martin Langhoff· May 18, 2006, 22:16 UTC · re: Yann Dirson · lore

Re: tailor (Was: gateway status?)

On 5/19/06, Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> wrote:

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> Another tool that I don't see mentionned often here is tailor, which
> has the ability to act as a gatway between git and a good selection of
> other SCMs, including cvs and svn.  I have not yet tried it with git
> though, so any comments from people having shaked it a bit would be
> useful :)

Last I looked, a few months ago, it didn't track branches.

cheers,

martin

Jakub Narebski· May 16, 2006, 13:54 UTC · re: David Lang · lore

Re: gateway status?

David Lang wrote:

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> I seem to remember seeing discussion of gateways to cvs/svn that would let 
> a project use a git repository and allow clients to use cvs/svn clients to 
> retreive data.
> 
> am I remembering correctly, and are these tools ready for production use?

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote: in "[0/2 PATCH] git-svn 1.0.0 release" thread http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/19644

> It's been very solid for a long time now.  I haven't run into
> any problems with it myself in a while, and no critical bugs
> that I know of exist.  Labeling it 1.0.0 may make it look
> less scary to new users :)

So I guess yes, they are.

P.S. IIRC git-cvsserver is used as temporary "Git plugin" for Eclipse, and there are some problems with that due to the cvs client/server implementation in Eclipse.

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