code import does not support darcs

[Celso Pinto]

I was registering a new product and while in that process I noticed you only support importing code either from CVS or Subversion. Are there any plans to include Darcs support as well?

[David Allouche (ddaa)]

At the moment there are no plans to support darcs in Launchpad.

It is also unclear to me how a darcs import tool should work, since its purpose is to translate the history recorded by a VCS into another VCS format, but darcs does NOT record history.

[Celso Pinto (cpinto)]

Of course you have a history log in darcs, otherwise how would it be useful to track changes? If you execute 'darcs changes' you get a complete changelog. There are even options that show what files have been modified/added/removed/moved.

Darcs also works with changesets so translating each changeset to tla or bazaar format shouldn't prove too difficult.

[David Allouche (ddaa)]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but only records a partially ordered set of patches on a tree. That set of patches can grow and shrink an there is no way to retrieve the "state of that branch yesterday".

Darcs is also the only system that I know of which supports first class changesets. All the other systems (and in particular bzr) use a data model based on revision snapshots.

I'm not saying that it would be impossible to support darcs, and in an ideal world we would support it. When we have finished the transition to bzr and cscvs is released you will be able to help.

[Saša Janiška (gour)]

Hi!

Is there anything new in regard to darcs (import) support in LP?

Sincerely,
Gour

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:46:47 Gour wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is there anything new in regard to darcs (import) support in LP?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour

no.

[Zachary Uram (netrek)]

Just wondering when darcs will be supported? I need to import a darcs repo into a bzr branch so that I can upload it to my launchpad project.

Regards,
Zach

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

Not for a very, very long time.

If you want to migrate from Darcs to Bazaar, then you might want to look at http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrMigration#Darcs

Thanks,
jml

[Saša Janiška (gour)]

>Not for a very, very long time.

Does it mean there won't be support for darcs at all or it's simply not high priority?

>If you want to migrate from Darcs to Bazaar, then you might want to look at http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrMigration#Darcs

I'm not interested for migrating from Darcs to Bazaar, but simply to be able to provide bzr branches at LP and continue to use darcs for my local development.

Sincerely,
Gour

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Gour <email address hidden> wrote:
>>Not for a very, very long time.
>
> Does it mean there won't be support for darcs at all or it's simply not
> high priority?
>

It's not a high priority at the moment.

It's also probable that at the rate of bugs fixed vs bugs filed, this
bug will never get fixed.

>>If you want to migrate from Darcs to Bazaar, then you might want to
> look at http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrMigration#Darcs
>
> I'm not interested for migrating from Darcs to Bazaar, but simply to be
> able to provide bzr branches at LP and continue to use darcs for my
> local development.
>

I'm not sure of the best way to do that. If you had tools to do the
conversion on your own machine, you could then sync the results of
that conversion to Launchpad. The Bazaar mailing list will be able to
help you with both of those things, I think.

jml

[Saša Janiška (gour)]

@Jonathan:

> It's not a high priority at the moment.

> It's also probable that at the rate of bugs fixed vs bugs filed, this
> bug will never get fixed.

Are you aware that darcs-fast-export is now merged and bundled with bzr-fast-import plugin, which means that adding support for Darcs shuld be quite easy now.

See https://launchpad.net/bzr-fastimport.

Sincerely,
Gour

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

I'd like to note that this is something I would like to see as well. There are many projects hosted on Debian.org that use darcs. I've been working with a Debian user to integrate launchpad with their project. Unfortunately, this will cause issues with this process.