Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Request for help adding monotone output to cvs2svn

[Patrick Georgi]

Bruce Stephens schrieb:
> cared about this could hack a monotone backend in a day or two;
> maybe longer if it turned out that monotone needed extra automate
> features, but I'd guess it wouldn't now that there's a way to
> commit revisions.
automate is definitely enough for hg2mtn...

> For that matter, I guess it might be feasible to read git's
> fast-import format instead (that would probably take a bit more
> effort, but might be more useful).
I started such an effort, but considered it not worth it, as
fast-import reveals too many of the details in git's design that
differ from monotone. I particularily had issues with the differences
in branches, and it was seriously slowed down by keeping my own
directory tree model (as git doesn't handle directories at all).

Summary: I got better results quicker by building a direct translation
(it was hg2mtn in that case) instead of working around the differences
to get a suitable mtn-fast-import.


Regards,
Patrick Georgi

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