Re: [Gnu-arch-users] strategy/code for migrating changesets out of arch

[Robert Anderson]

--- Original Message ---
From: Dustin Sallings <address@hidden>
To: Arch Users <address@hidden>
Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] strategy/code for migrating changesets
out of arch

>
>       At work, we use perforce.  It's good enough when it and the
network 
>works, so I've not been pushing arch to my group.  I have, however, 
>been trying to use it myself.  In doing so, I've created a
utility to 
>migrate changesets applied to a particular section of a depot 
>overlapping an arch tree back into arch.  It works pretty well
and I 
>seem to be getting all of our checkins into my arch mirrors.
>
>       Although I can branch this tree and work in it just fine, I
don't have 
>anything to reapply those changesets back into a p4 tree.  Does
anyone 
>have anything that might help comprehend arch changesets so I
can apply 
>the changes back to p4?

Wouldn't a much easier first-cut at this just involved playing
the changesets into a p4 tree, and committing the changes
directly in p4?

This leaves renames as a manual task, but it might be enough to
get you going.

Bob