Migrating CVS repositories to Bazaar

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:48:46AM -0600, 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.

Speaking of that, why not call the script cvs-fast-export?  This assumes
(1) that I correctly understood its purpose, and that (2) there isn't
already an existing tool with that name?

Marius Gedminas
-- 
Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BASIC.
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