From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pete/Piet Delaney Subject: Re: How to Import a bitkeeper repo into git Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:41:28 -0700 Organization: Bluelane Message-ID: <471408B8.8080509@bluelane.com> References: <598689.78740.qm@web56015.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20070709173720.GS29994@genesis.frugalware.org> <4713FA4A.5090501@bluelane.com> <20071016000359.GT27899@spearce.org> Reply-To: pete@bluelane.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , VMiklos , free cycle , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 16 02:44:36 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 1IhaVF-0006yc-72 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:41:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756822AbXJPAle (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:41:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756263AbXJPAle (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:41:34 -0400 Received: from outbound.mse2.exchange.ms ([69.25.50.247]:56828 "EHLO mse2fe1.mse2.exchange.ms" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755757AbXJPAld (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:41:33 -0400 Received: from piet2.bluelane.com ([64.95.123.130]) by mse2fe1.mse2.exchange.ms with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:41:32 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) In-Reply-To: <20071016000359.GT27899@spearce.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Oct 2007 00:41:32.0746 (UTC) FILETIME=[4C72DAA0:01C80F8D] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > 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? It's a side by side graphical diff. So instead of showing the difference like diff does it takes the output from diff and shows the originals with the diffs highlighted. tkdiff is a good example that's easy to down load and see. So just imagine allowing git-gui to run tkdiff of revisions you select with the mouse. > > 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. Try downloading tkdiff. There also a X implementation, I think it's xdiff. > > 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... Try tkdiff and then tell me you don't find it easier to read that the straight output from diff. - -piet -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHFAi4JICwm/rv3hoRAluCAJ9jFrA9G8aKQi1rtM2CSiNnmhlo4wCeJjk7 LONAM+lzvin021HAhQ8jKoE= =QsE/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----