Re: bzr to git syncing

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2009, 17:49 UTC
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0908281049t64f06a2r5efa114c7bcdc468@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b2cdc9f30908281047p76c12029u21b100ae6d88fe93@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

[+vcs-fast-import-devs]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:47, Alex Bennee<kernel-hacker@bennee.com> wrote:

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> 2009/8/28 Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 09:02, Alex Bennee<kernel-hacker@bennee.com> wrote:
>>> I've attached the fast-import crash I'm seeing. Are you seeing the
>>> same sort of failure?
>>
>> The program you used to generate the stream (I assume git-bzr?) is
>> generating an invalid mode, git understands '100644', '100755',
>> '120000', and '160000'; the mode in the stream, '040000', is not
>> something we understand.
>
> Yeah, it seems in bzr land it mean new directory which we don't care
> about. The following patch makes it work. Apologies for failure to
> inline but Gmail would just corrupt it if I tried.
>
> I also had to patch the ref check code to accept bzr style branch
> names but I suspect that patch should be kept out of the repo.

This seems like a fine case for the new 'feature' command on bzr's export side.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier