Re: RFD: git-bzr: anyone interested?

From: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 27, 2010, 02:53 UTC
Message-ID: <4BD651C6.5050501@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <p2ka038bef51004261441x7e4857f1mc3f03a4104f8e018@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On 2010-04-26 17:41, Chris Packham wrote:

> How far did git-bzr or git-remote-bzr get?
>

I unfortunately haven't had much time to fiddle with this. Having a full time job doesn't give me much space for experiences :( And on my free time, I've been a bit busy with one of my projects..

I've tried simply "plugging in" the bzr-fastimport plugin to do the communication part. They already implement output similar to what git-fastimport expects. I was stuck on the part where you have to specify "marks" files, and about where to place them, so I left it there for now.

I'll try and work on this pretty soon, but since I'm doing this on spare time, any help would be welcome. Maybe the good thing to do would be to put up a page somewhere with a mini-roadmap and the info needed/the info that was found out? By using bzr fast-import, the whole thing shouldn't take too long.

> I've tried git-bzr from the repo and I seem to be stumbling on bzr not
> having the fast-export command after I install the fast-import plugin
> as per [1].

> [1] http://github.com/kfish/git-bzr/blob/master/README

This script needs you to install bazaar and the bzr "fast-import" plugin. Normally the fast-export command is implemented by it. You need a rather up-to-date version, though. I've found this script to work mostly for pulling in changes from bzr into git. Pushing has proven to be from slow to non-functional.

As for the interest in this: mine is in using only one tool to do the work right and not having to switch from using 3 vcs tools (the current situation at work is 2 -- git and svn -- but soon bzr will come in). And for the one tool, I'd like to choose git. stupid reason? probably. but I've tried bzr and I don't like it.

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Gabriel Filion