[Monotone-devel] Re: [RFC] mtn to git conversion script

[Juan Jose Comellas]

I made some modifications to the script that converts Monotone
repositories to Git to make it work with what I had. I also added
support for renaming commit authors.

To use the modified script just call it passing the name of the
repository file as the first argument. You can add a second optional
argument with the name of the file that holds the authors' names and
email addresses. In this file you should have one line per commit
author with the following format:

Firstname Lastname <address@hidden>

This script still uses the AutomateStdio.pm Perl module that can be
found in the net.venge.monotone.contrib.lib.automate-stdio branch of
Monotone's main repository.

I'm no Perl guru so there might be some bugs lurking in the code I
added. It did work for my repositories, though.

PS. Resending because I mistakenly sent the previous message as HTML mail.


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Brian Downing <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:18:50PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > I developed a script that converts a monotone repository into a git
> > one (exact clone), I want to contribute it so everybody can use it.
> >
> > This is the gist of the script:
> >
> > mtn update --revision address@hidden --reallyquiet
> > git ls-files --modified --others --exclude-standard -z | git
> > update-index --add --remove -z --stdin
> > git write-tree
> > git write-raw < /tmp/commit.txt
> > git update-ref refs/mtn/address@hidden address@hidden
> >
> > branches.each do |e|
> >     git update-ref refs/heads/#{e} address@hidden
> > end
>
> You definitely want to use fast-import, but you probably want to do
> something a lot closer to fast-export for monotone (read: use its
> automate stdio interface and avoid expensive calls).
>
> Here's a simple monotone to git converter I wrote.  You'll need the
> Monotone::AutomateStdio perl module to use it (which I think I got it
> from monotone's net.venge.monotone.contrib.lib.automate-stdio branch).
> It is very fast; it can convert the OpenEmbedded repo in something like
> 5-10 minutes on my machine.
>
> Note that for monotone export to go fast you absolutely /must/ avoid the
> get_manifest operation.  In my converter I use the revision information
> directly.  Getting the renames right with this is a little tricky; IIRC,
> the ordering that works is:
>
> * Rename all renamed files, innermost files first, to temporary names.
> * Delete all deleted files, innermost first.
> * Rename all temporary names to permanent names, outermost first.
> * Add all new/modified files.
>
> Conveniently, all of the above can be done by directly emitting
> fast-import commands, so you don't have to keep track of trees directly.
> (With one exception, which I'll elaborate on in a different email.)
>
> -bcd

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