Re: Info about available CVS/Arch/Git branches

[Jim Meyering]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>> Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:
>>> I'm intrigued by the mention of "git" in the subject line.  Do we have a
>>> bidirectionally-synced git repo for Emacs yet?  I noticed
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git;a=summary
>>> but I wasn't sure if it was two-way, since there is no mention of it
>>> on the Emacs Savannah project page.
>>
>> You'll have to ask Jim Meyering about it.
>
> It would appear that this repo is made from CVS.  If it is feasible,
> it might me nicer to do this from the arch repo since that would
> presumably keep track of the merges (information that is missing from
> CVS).  I've had mediocre success using git archimport however.
>
> Maybe it is also possible to extract just the merge info (which commit
> was merged into which branch) in textual form from arch?  I could then
> try my hand at figuring out a way to inject this info into the git
> repository.

You might want to look at how that is handled in the git <-> p4 mirroring
code in git's contrib/fast-import/*.

BTW, in the last week, I changed things so that branches in the git
repository are now pushed into the public emacs.git.  Before, I'd
been pushing only the trunk ("master").