# HG changeset patch # User Paul Crowley # Date 1216208882 -3600 # Node ID 0185a9b236eb54636f65cfe332cf2d1a275af01f # Parent ba7e6a39bf9009f640ea1a329faeea7f4a31183f Line wrap README diff -r ba7e6a39bf90 -r 0185a9b236eb README --- a/README Tue Jul 15 17:39:09 2008 +0100 +++ b/README Wed Jul 16 12:48:02 2008 +0100 @@ -3,25 +3,35 @@ Paul Crowley, LShift Ltd, July 2008 paul@lshift.net -WARNING: this tool is very incomplete and barely tested. It is currently intended for active developers only. +WARNING: this tool is very incomplete and barely tested. It is +currently intended for active developers only. -hg-fastimport is (or will be) a tool which converts "git-fast-import" files into Mercurial repositories. "git-fast-import" is a file format for representing the entire history of a version control repository. +hg-fastimport is (or will be) a tool which converts "git-fast-import" +files into Mercurial repositories. "git-fast-import" is a file format +for representing the entire history of a version control repository. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git-core/docs/git-fast-import.html -This file format was designed to make it easier to write tools which converted from foreign VCS repository formats into "git" format; such tools exist for CVS, Mercurial, and Darcs. +This file format was designed to make it easier to write tools which +converted from foreign VCS repository formats into "git" format; such +tools exist for CVS, Mercurial, Darcs, and Perforce. http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html http://repo.or.cz/w/fast-export.git http://repo.or.cz/w/darcs2git.git -As well as the original "git-fast-import" program which imports these files into Git, a reader that imports them into Mercurial has been written +As well as the original "git-fast-import" program which imports these +files into Git, a reader that imports them into Mercurial has been +written http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrFastImport -With the addition of this tool, "git-fast-import" is becoming a "lingua franca" for the exchange of repository histories between revision control tools. +With the addition of this tool, "git-fast-import" is becoming a +"lingua franca" for the exchange of repository histories between +revision control tools. -This tool draws heavily on the work done for BzrFastImport, and so is covered by the GPL. +This tool draws heavily on the work done for BzrFastImport, and so is +covered by the GPL. hg-fastimport - imports "git-fast-import" files into Mercurial. Copyright (C) 2008 LShift Ltd. (original portions)