[oe] [ANN] mtn2git v0.1

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Michael Krelin <hacker at klever.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Michael Krelin <hacker at klever.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I did look at it, but there are some issues. For starters it seems to
>>>> be using extensively the manifest, which would probably make it very
>>>> slow. Also, it seems to be keeping the trees of all the revisions.
>>>
>>> Back when mtn2git script was on the early stages of development and I've
>>> had
>>> some time I've started doing my own mtn2git gateway in c++ (never
>>> finished
>>> it, though). For what I remember using manifest was the only way, because
>>> the changes information mtn automate returns was incomplete or simply
>>> wrong,
>>> I don't remember the details... Do check your results carefully if you're
>>> trying to go this way. Luckily, being slow due to use of manifest should
>>> only matter on initial import.
>>
>> It's complicated, but hopefully doable.
>>
>> That's why there are two methods; one that does a full checkout of the
>> revision and imports it into git, and the other one that uses mtn
>> automate and fast-import.
>>
>> I'm able to import about 60% of the Pidgin code correctly, but after
>> that there are issues. That's the benefit of having two modes... I can
>> compare the fast one with the exact one and improve the fast one.
>
> I ended up using some hybrid mode myself, but the point is - there's no way
> to avoid pulling manifests all the time and that doesn't imply complete
> checkout.

Do you remember the problem?

>From what I can see it's doable.

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Felipe Contreras