Welcome to vcs-load-dirs
vcs-load-dirs is a tool to automate and simplify the loading of software into version control systems. It is designed primarily for importing from a non-version-controlled upstream, such as processing release tarballs.
While a bit of scripting can help some version control systems achieve a basic version of this, vcs-load-dirs often does better than that, especially concerning renames.
vcs-load-dirs is a Free Software project licensed under the GNU General Public License. You can download it for free, and you can modify it. In fact, you are encouraged to contribute to vcs-load-dirs, and doing so is fast and easy.
vcs-load-dirs is written in pure Python and has been known to work on various versions of Linux and BSD. It was written primarily in response to Subversion's svn_load_dirs, which was tied to Subversion's internals and not portable to other VCSs.
Features
- When a given import directory represents only adds or only deletes from the tree in version control, vcs-load-dirs automatically issues the needed add/delete commands to tell the VCS what happened.
- When an import directory represents both adds or deletes, vcs-load-dirs realizes that, rather than a bunch of discrete adds and deletes, there may be files that were renamed. It enters an interactive mode, showing deleted and added files, and lets you match them up if you believe any were renamed. You can optionally skip this step if you don't want your VCS to track the renames. vcs-load-dirs will inform your VCS about renames, adds, and deletes.
VCS support
These version control systems are supported by vcs-load-dirs:
| VCS | executable name | Debian package | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common core | . | load-dirs-common | John Goerzen |
| baz (aka bazaar) | baz_load_dirs | baz-load-dirs | Teemu Ikonen |
| Darcs | darcs_load_dirs | darcs-load-dirs | John Goerzen |
| Git | git_load_dirs | git-load-dirs | Guido Guenther |
| Mercurial (aka hg) | hg_load_dirs | hg-load-dirs | John Goerzen |
| SVK | svk_load_dirs | svk-load-dirs | Florian Ragwitz |
| tla (aka Arch v1) | tla_load_dirs | tla-load-dirs | John Goerzen |
Starting Points
- The vcs-load-dirs manpages (HTML)
Using This Site:
- Editing Wiki Pages
- Reporting Bugs
- Account questions, such as recovering a lost password, logging in, etc.
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Downloads: Source and Binaries
- Source releases are available from the downloads area on this site. Just click the Files tab above.
- The latest development trees are available via Git; see below.
- You can find Debian packages from the vcs-load-dirs Debian page.
- RPMs and packages for many other Linux and BSD distributions are also included with your distribution.
Contributing to vcs-load-dirs
You can always download the source from the Downloads page and attach diffs. But it's far better, both for you and for me, if you use Darcs.
Please see our 5-Minute Git Guide. You can check out the vcs-load-dirs repository with:
git clone git://git.complete.org/vcs-load-dirs
You can also help by adding information to this wiki.
Forums
vcs-load-dirs forums are available; just click the Forums tab above.