From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 1 03:24:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D3016A419 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2007 03:24:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5682113C494 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2007 03:24:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from kobe.laptop (vader.bytemobile.ondsl.gr [83.235.244.135]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-8) with ESMTP id l813NK1W020161 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 06:23:27 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l813N4L0049717; Sat, 1 Sep 2007 06:23:20 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l813N4SS049716; Sat, 1 Sep 2007 06:23:04 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 06:23:04 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Howard Goldstein Message-ID: <20070901032304.GA13164@kobe.laptop> References: <46D81EB4.3060902@queue.to> <46D846F2.5040000@otenet.gr> <46D84C86.8010207@FreeBSD.org> <46D854DB.6080505@queue.to> <20070831204545.GA87338@kobe.laptop> <46D8D82B.1030905@queue.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46D8D82B.1030905@queue.to> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.082, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.32, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to retrieve a directory tree from perforce.freebsd.org? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:24:02 -0000 On 2007-08-31 23:10, Howard Goldstein wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> I have been tinkering with scripts which pull changesets from >> Perforce and commit them to 'clonable' Mercurial repositories (other >> repoformats should be possible too). >> >> If there is a specific part of the Perforce tree you are interested >> in, we can arrange with the people developing that part of the tree >> to 'mirror' and/or export Perforce changesets to another format. > > I was looking for Pawel's ZFS code at //depot/user/pjd/zfs to see if I > could MFC it for my own system but it occurs to me as I'm answering you > that I ought to be able to csup what I need right out of the CURRENT and > avoid the problem. Sure, depending on the time it takes for changes to trickle into CVS HEAD from //depot/user/pjd/zfs/... it may be sufficient to pull the changes from a CVSup copy of HEAD :-) > perforce must be pretty good as compared to everything else we can run > for version control? It does the job, and it's an advanced centralized SCM system, with many nice features one would expect from this sort of an SCM tool :-) > Thanks in advance for taking a whack at the problem. You're welcome :)