Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:03:04 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] BK->CVS (real time mirror) |
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> 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. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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