Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:49:37 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] BK->CVS (real time mirror) |
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Larry McVoy wrote: >>I thought that BK has been able to export everything to a text file >>since the first version. > > > bk export -tpatch -r1.900 > patch.1.900 > bk changes -v -r1.900 > comments.1.900 > > Been there forever. So has ways to get all the metadata from the command > line without having to reverse engineer the file format. See > > http://www.bitkeeper.com/manpages/bk-prs-1.html > > it's all there. Always has been. > > Wayne wanted me to point that it is easy to write the BK to CVS exporter > completely from the command line, we prototyped it that way, the only > reason we rewrote part of it in C was for performance. The point being > that you guys could have done this yourself without help from us because > all the metadata is right there. Ditto for anyone else worried about > getting their data out of BK now or in the future. The whole point of > prs is to be able to have a will-always-work way to get at the data or > the metadata, it makes the file format a non-issue. >
This is a Good Thing[TM] for a whole bunch of reasons.
Maybe this output could be made available automatically in addition to the CVS tree? If bandwidth is a concern then I reiterate what I said offline yesterday, if you can give me a ballpark idea of what the requirements seem to be I'll start hunting for a place to park a .kernel.org server dedicated to this task.
-hpa
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