[darcs-users] Linux in darcs: Repository not updated?

[Erik Bågfors]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:12:58 -0500, David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 11:56:50PM +0100, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> > >>>>> "David" == David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org> writes:
> >
> >     David> I tried switching to Lele's tailor.py script, but that also
> >     David> assumes that the date increases monotonically.
> >
> > Wasn't there an bk-svn bridge too? That surely should be easier to
> > track.
> 
> Yeah, I thought of that, but it's been offline for over a year (after
> searching in vain, I found this out by emailing its creator).
> 
> I've ended up just writing a little perl script to convert the bkcvs
> repository without using cvs at all, using rcs directly and traversing the
> repository directly.  I get the changeset information by just trusing the
> log of ./ChangeSet.  So far all the script does is the initial conversion,
> so I'll still have to update it for later updates.  It's much faster than
> cvs2darcs was--darcs is now the speed bottleneck, and it's simpler,
> too--just over 200 lines.
> 
> If there are any perl hackers who would like to take a look at the script
> to see if they can see any problems (or potential improvements), that would
> be great.  It's expected to be a specialty tool, only really useful for the
> bkcvs conversion.


I'd like to take a look at it.. acctually.. I see a few things I'd
like to change.  But how do I check out the bkcvs repo to start with?
:)

Regards,
Erik