Migrating CVS repositories to Bazaar

[Ian Clatworthy]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>> Michael Haggerty wrote:
>>> Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>>> cvs2git currently doesn't interact with git at all--it simply dumps one
>>> or two git-fast-import files to disk for the user to load manually using
>>> "git fast-import".  Therefore, at the current state of technology,
>>> cvs2git == cvs2hg == cvs2bzr and I could just as well have called it
>>> cvs2fastimport (or cvs2fast-import; can't you guys come to agreement
>>> about hyphens?!? :-) ).
>> cvs2fastimport sounds good to me. (Our plugin is called fastimport and
>> our command is called fast-import. That's because plugins map to
>> Python packages and Python doesn't like hyphens in package names. It
>> also allows 'bzr help fastimport' to give high level help on the plugin
>> while 'bzr help fast-import' explains just that command in detail.)
> 
>> I should also mention that Darcs now supports fastimport format,
>> both for import and export.
> 
> Would it be "fastimport" or "fastexport"?
> 
> At least in my head, the thing converting *to* the stream format is a
> "fastexport" command, and the thing converting *from* the stream format
> is a "fastimport" command.

You're absolutely right. In fact, I think the best name for the version
of "bzr2git" that simply creates a fast-import stream is ...

  cvs-fast-export

That would make it consistent with git-fast-export, bzr-fast-export,
hg-fast-export, svn-fast-export, darcs-fast-export, etc.

Ian C.