Here is my first try at working with branches with tailor. This patch applies to current tailor from the darcs repo. Attached: the patch, and the sample config I used to test it against a public repo. Possible improvements: - the parent-repo parameter is probably generic enough to be useful for other targets, but it is currently a git-target parameter only - the change to tailor.py to avoid loosing the initial commit log on the imported branch probably breaks all other targets because of the previous issue - autodetection of the branchpoint would be great, but that surely deserves to be done in core tailor - I'll have a try next to add support for pushing git branches to cvs ones: that will give us a real 2-way sync between cvs and git Generic problems noticed: - not all tags from the cvs repo I tested against were imported (problem specific to the cvs source ?) - I could not make the cvsps source work to verify it fetches tags better than the cvs one - the "projects" parameter has to be specified explicitely to force the ordering of branch imports - I would have expected the declaration order to be used. - it would probably be cleaner to have the *Repository classes in repository.py moved into their own files: currently we have to modify a generic file to add backend-specific options, that's not really generic. What about loading the necessary class when it is found mentionned in the config ? Comparison with git-cvsimport - tailor can give strange results in some cases, but I believe it is more correct than git-cvsimport. An example is when the cvs branch you import does not exist in some files for any reason (I had a branch only for the src/ dir - corrected that now): in that case tailor correctly shows deletions for those files in the branch initial commit, whereas git-cvsimport only works on changes, and does not do anything special (this may be cvsps doing magic behind his back). - run against a local copy of the repository, tailor is orders of magnitude slower than git-cvsimport (git-cvsimport returned instantly on my repo), some profiling has to be done. -- Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> | Debian-related: <dirson@debian.org> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: | Freedom, Power, Stability, Gratis http://ydirson.free.fr/ | Check <http://www.debian.org/> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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