From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Git to Bzr - what works? Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:49:07 +0300 Message-ID: <837gt0kgyk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5029AB54.8020804@dancol.org> <83fw7pjqav.fsf@gnu.org> <877gt1p7s9.fsf@olor.terpri.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344998950 3057 80.91.229.3 (15 Aug 2012 02:49:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: BT Templeton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 04:49:09 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T1TfQ-00074M-Sc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:49:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1TfP-0005Pf-TF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:49:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1TfN-0005PN-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1TfM-0005dG-GI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:49:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:42394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1TfM-0005cn-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M8R00000ZSH7V00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:49:02 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M8R00MXRZTQXP90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:49:02 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <877gt1p7s9.fsf@olor.terpri.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:152531 Archived-At: > From: BT Templeton > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:56:06 -0400 > > > I don't understand the problem. What's wrong with generating diffs > > from the git repo and then applying them to the bzr repo? > > You'd lose the commit metadata. AFAICT generating fastimport files is > currently the only reasonable way to move commits between git and bzr > without losing (much) information. But fastimport doesn't quite work, does it? So in practice, it isn't a solution, either. Did someone try to merge from git repository to bzr repository using the bzr-git plugin?