On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:56:33 +0000 Jamie Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Firstly, tailor doesn't seem to understand history-preserving copies. > > Everything seems to be an add, delete or modify. This leads to my next > query, namely, are tags/branches actually supported? I was led to > believe they were (even if actual copy-tracking wasn't), but the > result of every copy is going into my new repository as a new > addition. Tailor does not know anything about branches, and has a very limited support for tags. This comes from the fact that tailor was born to migrate changesets between /different/ kind of VCS, and thus it supports only those operations making sense on both ends: "history preserving copy" is available only on Subversion, while on most modern DVCS that's just a "branch". > Is the destructive use of rsync required when the full history is > available in the log (to re-enact)? Sorry, I do not understand the question, and in particular the "destructive" use of rsync... > The main advantage I wanted from tailor was to provide me full > access to the history of the vendor code I'm importing when merging > in my own repository, but without copy history it kind of falls down > slightly in that regard. It's still better than a en-masse code > import, but not quite what I thought it was capable of initially :( Tailor did/does a great job for me, with exactly that goal, but I'm mostly using it to migrate "vendor code" to my own set of darcs repositories from whatever system "vendor" used. For my purposes, I usually track just a single line of development at a time (that is, I usually do not convert the whole upstream SVN repository with /trunk, /branches and /tags, but rather just /trunk, or just /branches/the-interesting-one). > I was kind of expecting tailor to checkout a revision, read the log > actions, replay them, then check in the result and fix up anything > required (author, date, etc). That's what tailor actually does, more or less. ciao, lele. -- nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia. [email protected] | -- Fortunato Depero, 1929. _______________________________________________ Tailor mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/tailor
