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X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111728 Archived-At: On Jun 25, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > I believe Bazaar now supports fastimport format in both directions. > > Interaction between git and Bazaar probably means you lose/munge > VCS-specific metadata (Bazaar cares about revision numbers while git > doesn't support them at all, and the revision ID formats are > timestamp-specific in each VCS, so converting those in a > roundtrippable way would require great care) in each direction, but > with minimal care you should be able to preserve the history dag and > core meta data (author information). fast-import (bzr->git at least) keeps an index to facilitate fast incremental exports. Suppose one has a commit in the git repo to be committed to the Bzr repo, would it be possible to 1. convert a git patch (git-format-patch) to a Bazaar merge directive? 2. use fast-import/export to export just the patch?