On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Ron W <ronw.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Done. As I said, It is *very* much a work-in-progress. >> > > Looks like a good start. Not as much code as I thought it would require. > > A direct import will certainly bypass the limitations of using > git-fast-import as an intermediate. Still will be interesting to compare > the result to other tools do. >
Having read post from many places, one of the big complaints SVN users have about Git is directory tracking. Fossil lack this, too. While I agree that neither the build process nor the resulting application should rely on the VCS to create directories, many SVN users consider this a "deal breaker". Maybe a direct importer could have an option for creating placeholder files? While far from perfect, I think it would mitigate some of the "culture shock" of moving to Fossil from SVN. Also, another reason in favor of a direct importer: Git only tracks the heads of branches. No history is being lost, just that determining what branch a given commit belongs to is difficult. Therefor, git-fast-import doesn't provide branch name information (though the way some SVN-to-Git conversions are done, the branch name can be inferred from the path.)
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