Re: New Bzr to Git migration tool

From: Henrik Nilsson <henrik30000@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2009, 20:06 UTC
Message-ID: <d51232210907091306n46c0cda6g49bf9880d701f2e0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <37B936CB-2B2F-49DB-B282-EAD6C87E9A63@gmail.com>

2009/7/9 David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>:

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> 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.
>
>
>

Yes I suppose they do. The Bzr repository I was working on when I wrote this script has not been dealing with any branches.

I should have mentioned that I am not looking for feedback to work further on this, unless I have any need for it myself, but you are very welcome to build upon it. :)

Henrik Nilsson