Re: importing bk into git

> G'day,
>
> I modified that script to convert a number of our repositories in
> February.  The version below worked for me at the time, but I'm not
> able to test it now as our BK license has expired.  In particular I'm
> not sure if the bk_info.split line is correct; I had a reduced form of
> this line in the file which now looks obviously wrong.
>
> The script is slow; most of the time is in the bk export for every
> revision.  There are probably dumb things in there; I don't know
> python and I was just starting with git.
>
> Changes from the version I downloaded from the web include:
>   - sundry changes to make it work for me
>   - separate committers file to translate user names to full names
>   - specify a git dir template
>   - copy tags from BK
>   - minimal conversion of ignore files
>   - increased recursion limit to handle large number of commits
>
> I hope this is useful to someone.