Re: git-1.8.2 support pulling from and pushing to a bzr branch

[keramida@ceid.upatras.gr (Γιώργος Κεραμίδας)]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:22:32 -0500, "John Wiegley" <johnw@newartisans.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>> git-1.8.2, released in March, supports pulling from and pushing to bzr
>> branches.  This should make it possible to contribute to Emacs using git
>> without ever having to touch bzr directly.  Also read-only users won't
>> be affected by the git mirrors lagging behind anymore - they can just
>> pull themselves.
>
> I found out about this support last week, so as you can imagine I immediately
> jumped on it and cloned the Emacs BZR repository (which took a good long
> while, but did succeed).
>
> The resulting repository could not be updated (using git-fetch).  At first it
> kept timing out trying to communicate with the remote bazaar server.  Then, it
> started giving me an exception about "object 000000000 not existing", or
> something like that.  I was never able to get the repository to function again
> after that and deleted it.
>
> So, I think this is a great idea, but I'm not sure it's any more ready for
> prime-time than the old git-bzr machinery was.

Ditto.

I did the same experiment when I found out about the new support too.
Unfortunately, I also hit the "object 000000000 not existing" problem,
and failed to re-fetch anything from the git clone.  The existing git
mirror works fine for now I think.