Re: Importing Bzr revisions

From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 23, 2009, 12:13 UTC
Message-ID: <30CDC575-120E-4FAE-8B4D-1971954E913A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7veiwo8xz7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mar 23, 2009, at 4:06 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Suppose I have a bzr branch that has been converted (somehow) to a  
>> git
>> branch, is it then possible to merge new revisions from the bzr  
>> branch
>> into the git one?
>
> It entirely depends on how that "somehow" goes.
>
> If that "somehow" procedure performs a reliably reproducible  
> conversion
> (i.e. not only it will produce the identical git history when you  
> feed the

The question is then: How would one reliably convert a Bzr branch to git? One branch is enough for me, but we're talking >100k revisions, so if the procedure involves Bzr tools, it will take longer then is practicable.

Also, my impression is that not many people are doing this, because the fast-export/import combination hasn't seen a lot of development activity. I'm a bit wary to set up my project in git when I don't just need to convert once, but in future convert and merge pretty much every day... (The upstream project is going to use Bzr, while I am trying to see if Git is an option for me downstream.)