On Wed, Tue, 9 Nov 2010 20:52:11 -0500, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Todd A. Jacobs < > [email protected]<codegnome.consulting%[email protected]> > <codegnome.consulting%[email protected]<codegnome.consulting%[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > I'm looking at fossil, and saw a recent post about using git's > > fast-export to get data into fossil. I'm unsure how one gets revision > > history OUT of fossil, though. > > > > If I use fossil, and decide at some point that I want to migrate to > > something else, is there any way to export the revision history of > > artifacts? Something similar to svndump or git's fast-export? Even if > > it isn't *usable* by anything else at the moment, the ability to > > export into some sort of parsable format would be nice. > > The latest checking on trunk ( > http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/info/0e87f42762) is able to export all of > its revision history to Git using the "fossil export" command. And it is > able to import Git revision history using the "fossil import" command. > > I tested the export capabilities by translating the Fossil and SQLite > repositories into Git. And I tested the import function by translating the > Git repository into Fossil. > > These two new commands (import and export) are early prototypes. They > surely still contain bugs and lack needed features. But I think they > provide a good start toward an import/export capability for Fossil. > > To convert Fossil into Git: > > git init fdemo > cd fdemo > fossil export ~/fossil.fossil | git fast-import > > To convert Git into Fossil: > > git fast-export --signed-tag=strip --tag-of-filtered-object=drop --all > | fossil import git.fossil > > Please send bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement to this > mailing list, or directly to me.
Just in time to compatible with reposurgeon: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2718 --jcc -- J Cameron Cooper [email protected] [email protected] mobile: 713.882.7395 Skype: jcameroncooper
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