Re: How to import bzr repository into git

From: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 17, 2010, 00:22 UTC
Message-ID: <4CE32062.6010308@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimPmPOJq64=VePSb2efsx17j8BNxCLt_i=b2ykW@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/16/2010 02:57 PM, Dmitri Pissarenko wrote:

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> Hello!
> 
> I want to migrate one of my projects from Bazaar to git, preserving the history.
> 
> How can I do that in Windows (import an existing Bazaar project into a
> new/empty git repository) ?
>

Have a look at "bzr-fastimport" [1]. it's a Bazaar plugin that can help you to transform the bzr history into a git one.

[1]: https://launchpad.net/bzr-fastimport

I haven't done a lot of testing with shared-tree Bazaar repositories (a repository with multiple branches in it) but I suspect it would not work very well with such a layout.. If you're doing a one-time conversion of a one-branch repository, it works pretty well.

Once Bazaar and the bzr-fastimport plugin are installed, you mostly need to run those commands :

    git init project
    cd project
    bzr fast-export --export-marks=../bzr.mark /path/to/old/bzr/project
| git-fast-import --export-marks=../git.mark

you now have, in the new git project, a "master" branch with all the history from the bzr repository and all tags.

-- 
Gabriel Filion