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Common changeset format
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It might be useful to have a common changeset format for interchange
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It is not clear that you would be able to capture everything that
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every tool produces, but perhaps a lot could be done.
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Scenarios: (in order of difficulty?)
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* convert repo from one tool to another
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* one-way sync from exotic tool into read-only CVS or Svn repo
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* two way sync between writable archives
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Perforce's RevML and ``vcp`` may be some use but apparently don't go
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Things like darcs and monotone may have such a different model that it
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may be hard to map them.
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Two-way sync may require keeping external state and is probably pretty
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Apparently tlord tried to do something about this before but it
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Eventually perhaps we could arrange for someone to export key
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bitkeeper archives in this format, allowing all tools to read them in.
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Colin__ points the existing mailing list about this which is just a
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__ http://web.verbum.org/blog/freesoftware/fsrc-responses