From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Shawn O. Pearce" Subject: Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:03:59 -0400 Message-ID: <20071016000359.GT27899@spearce.org> References: <598689.78740.qm@web56015.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20070709173720.GS29994@genesis.frugalware.org> <4713FA4A.5090501@bluelane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Linus Torvalds , VMiklos , free cycle , git@vger.kernel.org To: Pete/Piet Delaney X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 16 02:23:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhZva-0006mX-HD for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:04:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756244AbXJPAE2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752853AbXJPAE2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:04:28 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:45780 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754010AbXJPAE1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:04:27 -0400 Received: from [74.70.48.173] (helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IhZuY-0008ER-TT; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:03:50 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 031B520FBAE; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:03:59 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4713FA4A.5090501@bluelane.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Pete/Piet Delaney wrote: > I imported the CVS repository to git and it worked great. Since all > of our other repository are in bitkeeper the management would like to > stick with CVS. With git apparently still being weak in the area of > supporting difftool on different version that seems somewhat reasonable > for the time being. ... > I was curious why the difftool paradigm hasn't been integrated into > the git GUIs. It's very comfortable and I think it has been used in > other source code control systems, for example Sun Microsystems. What's difftool? What's so great about it? Forgive my ignorance but it has been many years since I last used BitKeeper and even when I did use it I didn't get into many of the features it offered. Its entirely possible I never learned about difftool. I've never found that I cannot get the information I need out of Git when I need it. Actually I've found it to be the easiest VCS to get data out of, beating CVS, Perforce, BitKeeper, SVN, etc. hands down. Of course I also know Git better than I know those tools... -- Shawn.