Re: Migrating from StarTeam to GIT

Hi,

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Jeff King wrote:

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:19:28AM -0600, Sean Kelley wrote:

quoted

Are there ways to migrate views in StarTeam to a DVCS like GIT? Anyone
have experience with this?

Wow, I've never even heard of StarTeam. AFAIK, there is no converter
already (as in, I have never heard of one, and searching the list
archive turns up nothing).

Getting history data into git is usually easy. If you can generate a
series of snapshots, at worst you can script around commiting each one.
Or you can write to the "git fast-import" input language, which is,
well...fast.

And you can learn by example: "git -p fast-export HEAD" ;-)

The tricky part will be getting your data out of StarTeam, which is
apparently not very easy:

  http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-07/0720.shtml

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTeam, there is a 
cross-platform Java client; I'd try to hack that, using a combination of 
"unzip -p $JAR META-INF/MANIFEST.MF", javap, and good luck ;-)

/me has an idea and goes off Googling

Yes.  There is no need to hack it: 
http://techpubs.borland.com/starteam/2008r2/en/SDK_Documentation/api/index.html

From a quick glance, it appears that com.starbase.starteam.Project should 

be the entry point.

Ciao,
Dscho