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Re: New Bzr to Git migration tool

From
David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 9, 2009, 17:36 UTC
Message-ID
<37B936CB-2B2F-49DB-B282-EAD6C87E9A63@gmail.com>
Henrik Nilsson wrote on git@vger.kernel.org:
> I recently wrote a Bzr to Git migration tool and thought I'd share it
> with anyone who might be interested.
> It's written in shell-script and iterates through the Bzr commits
> while adding those changes to a new Git repository.

This is interesting to me, as my use case will involve extending an existing git repository iteratively from the bzr commits. Looking at the technique, this should be possible that way.

I am missing support for converting all branches of the repository. More importantly, don't merges get lost? All your git side commits seem to have a single parent.

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  1. David ReitterJul 9, 2009
  2. Henrik NilssonJul 9, 2009

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