Re: New Bzr to Git migration tool

David Reitter· Jul 9, 2009, 17:36 UTC · lore

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.

Henrik Nilsson· Jul 9, 2009, 20:06 UTC · re: David Reitter · lore

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