[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Conflicts in .arch-ids

[Catalin Marinas]

Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
> James Blackwell wrote:
>> What's more, the clause is rather ambigious, so its potentially possible
>> that anybody that wrote a BK->Arch gateway could be considered as
>> "working on arch".
>
> One clean-room approach would be for an Archer to specify the API they
> needed, and for a BK-clean user to write a library conforming to that
> API.
>
> The API would not, then, be Arch-specific, and in fact, could also be
> the basis for BK -> svn, BK -> darcs, and BK -> perforce gateways.
>
> I'm not necessarily recommending this approach, but one of the cscvs
> maintainers could probably spec up a good API.

That's maybe too complicated. A simple shell script could retrieve
changesets one by one from BK and commit them in arch (this is my
impression after looking at the BK docs, but I've never used it).

Catalin