One of the things I'd like to do is to validate an import by exporting it and comparing it against the original fast-import stream. Right now, that generally won't work across tools because there's a lot of flexibility about things are exported. So, I'm thinking something like this would be cool:
(do the export from the source tool -> original.fi) (do the import into the destination tool) (do the export from the destination tool -> exported.fi) fast-import-filter --normal form original.fi > import-normalised.fi fast-import-filter --normal-form exported.fi > export-normalised.fi diff import-normalised.fi export-normalised.fi (Hooray - it all matches) Make sense? So what would "normal form" looks like? Well, that's the point of this email - to get some input on that. I'd thinking of something like: * progress and checkpoint messages removed * all tag commands last, sorted by tag name * all blobs inline * all file-commands ordered in some agreed way, e.g. deletes, modifies, renames, copies and alphabetically sorted within each group. * ??? Thoughts? Volunteers to do the work? :-) Ian C. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~vcs-fast-import-devs Post to : vcs-fast-import-devs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~vcs-fast-import-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
