RTC to BitBucket Migration

Question

I am trying to migrate our source code from Rational Team concert to Bitbucket. So , I have created a branch in Bitbucket , then committed and pushed the entire RTC directory structure into Bitbucket.

The problem with this approach is that , I am unable to preserve the change history of individual files, when I push it to a Bitbucket branch. So, what strategy should I take to preserve the change history in Bitbucket?

Answer 1

There is no RTC built-in tool for exporting the history (changeset after changeset, stream by stream) from RTC to a new Git repo.

You can try ljhaywar/rtc2git (mentioned here) to see if you can export your RTC history that way. It does import baselines only:

• It initalizes an empty git repository and clones it
• In this repository, it loads a newly created rtc workspace based on your oldest stream
• It iterates to a configured list of streams to determine the baseline of each component of this stream
• For each baseline of this component a compare command will be executed
• The result of the compare will be parsed to get to the necessary commit-informations (such as author, comment, date)
• The change will be accepted in the workspace
• The corresponding git command will be executed to do the same change in the git-repository