Trent W. Buck wrote: > With the new Darcs support, I'd like to start using it for /etc[0]. > > In order to do so, I need to convert the existing history from git to > darcs format. I know how to do this for normal (code) repositories > using e.g. fast-export or tailor. However, etckeeper has some > metadata files that I don't know much about.
The metadata files are just files in version control, there should be nothing special involved in converting them. I think the main thing you'll want to take care about is changing /etc from one repo type to the other w/o actualy deleting or checking out all the files in it, as that would tend to break your system. If you convert from a VCS like git that keeps track of executable bits to one like darcs that does not, then old versions in the resulting darcs repository will not have that info, presenting a further problem if you tried to check them out. Once etckeeper knows you're using darcs, it will record executable permissions in /etc/.etckeeper. > It would be good if Debian.README had a couple of paragraphs > explaining what (if anything) is necessary to preserve history when > converting an etckeeper repository to a different backend. As far as I can see, the only etckeeper specific thing thing you'd need to do is run 'etckeeper init' after converting the repository. But I've never done this so I really can't tell. Looking forward to your patch to the documentation. :-) -- see shy jo
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