rcs-fast-import unpacks a git fast-import stream into an RCS file tree
+I wrote this as a prod at more recent and putatively more advanced
+version-control systems that don't have .fi importers yet. If crufty
+old RCS can import these streams, why can't yours?
+
The metadata in modern DVCSes can't really be stuffed back into RCS,
but this tool makes a valiant effort and may occasionally be useful
for extracting the revision histories of individual files from a
It keeps the revision structure, comments, authorship dates, and tag names.
It loses tag dates and comments and authorship information; commits are
-recorded as though they were from the user invoking it.
+recorded as though they were from the user invoking it. However, all
+import-stream metadata is preserved in RFC-822-style headers in commits.
# This is not a real Debian control file
# It's project metadata for the shipper tool
-Package: rcs-fast-export
+Package: rcs-fast-import
Description: unpack a git fast-import stream into an RCS file tree
The metadata in modern DVCSes can't really be stuffed back into RCS,
but this tool makes a valiant effort and may be useful for extracting
the revision histories of individual files from a project history.
+.
+ I wrote this as a prod at more recent and putatively more advanced
+ version-control systems that don't have .fi importers yet. If crufty
+ old RCS can import these streams, why can't yours?
-Homepage: http://www.catb.org/~esr/rcs-fast-export
+Homepage: http://www.catb.org/~esr/rcs-fast-import
XBS-Project-Tag-List: version control, git