Fossil Git Import

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This tool allows you to transform a git repository into a fossil repository. It does so by using the 'fast-export' sub command of recent git releases.

Please Note:

1. Previous versions of fossil are missing the 'reconstruct' command that this script depends on. Please use a current release
2. Currently this script does not work on MS Windows because of limitations in the Windows file system.

To Clone:

fossil clone http://code.linuxfood.net/pub/repo/git-import git_import.fsl

At present it ignores several things:

• symlinks - fossil doesn't support these
• branches - any time a git repo branches it's treated as a leaf in fossil. It works out to be basically the same.

Both of those are things which may be fixed in a future release, at present, however, it's usually sufficient to recreate the tags and branches by hand.

You can get started with it by cloning this repository and running:

import-git-export.pl <path to git checkout>

By default it transforms the resultant git-history.txt into a series of artifacts under artifacts/.

You can control the output directory by running it like so:

import-git-export.pl <path to git checkout> <artifacts dir>