bzr-p4 progress

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Matt,

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 19:48 -0400, Matt McClure wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
> > What I mean is, does it allow you to fetch the contents of an arbitrary
> > revision or inspect the revision graph?
> I must not understand the full implications of your question because
> it seems the answer is (too) obviously yes.
Sorry, I should perhaps clarify. Is it possible to fetch the contents of
an arbitrary revision or inspect the revision graph *without* converting
the whole repository to a bzr format first?

> On the Perforce side, I can wrap p4 commands to get information about
> arbitrary revisions.  The revision "graph" is always linear, for a
> first approximation.  As far as I'm aware, there is no widely accepted
> convention for repository layouts of branches in Perforce, whereas
> there is such a convention in Subversion.  So tracking more than one
> Perforce branch isn't one of my highest priorities.
> 
> Once the revisions have been migrated via
> p4-fast-export/bzr-fast-import, they live in a Bazaar branch that can
> be inspected like any other.  By saving marks files, the mapping
> between Perforce changelist numbers and Bazaar revision IDs is
> preserved.
So that implies that all operations that would access a p4 repository
would have to convert it to a Bazaar repository first? 

Cheers,

Jelmer

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