http://bazaar-ng.org/faq.html

Petr Baudis pasky at ucw.cz
Thu Apr 7 17:40:49 BST 2005


Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:58:10PM CEST, I got a letter
where Daniel Gryniewicz <dang at fprintf.net> told me that...
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 17:39 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Dear diary, on Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:49:27PM CEST, I got a letter
> > where Erik B?gfors <zindar at gmail.com> told me that...
> > > On Apr 7, 2005 12:16 PM, Peter Funk <pf at artcom-gmbh.de> wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > I just stumbled over bazaar-ng and think it looking very promising.  But:
> > > > IMHO: this should be added to the FAQ:
> > > 
> > > It's somewhat early for that I think. CVS 2 BZR converters will be
> > > written (I have already done one for darcs, but it was just a quick
> > > hack)
> > >  
> > > >  Is (will) it be possbile to migrate existing CVS-repositories into bzr?
> > > 
> > > Yes
> > > 
> > > >  What kind of data loss is to be expected when doing so?
> > > 
> > > None, just remember that bzr works in a differnent way. It's changeset
> > > oriented and cvs isn't. Also cvs "tags" inside the files will not work
> > > (I assume).  $Id$ for example.
> > 
> > Which is a shame, I think. I may be sick but I personally love the tags
> > and would like to retain a way to keep them (possibly more general way
> > to specify some rewriting rules when checking out files, dunno if it
> > could be useful for anything else though). Not that this is any major
> > thing, but still would be nice to have, I think. (Perhaps with a
> > per-tree keyword expansion policy possible.)
> 
> The problem, as I understand it, is that SCMs like bzr, baz, and tla
> don't have file versions, so there's no number to put into that ID
> string.  You could put the hash into it, but that's not very
> human-friendly...

The full equivalent in those SCMs is the last tree revision which
changed the file.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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