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: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:12:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83fw7pjqav.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5029AB54.8020804@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344968003 31643 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2012 18:13:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:13:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 14 20:13:23 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 1T1LcJ-0003ZO-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:13:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1LcI-0007AL-8l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:13:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39672) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1LcF-0007A9-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1LcD-0003IQ-PQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:13:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:55783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1LcD-0003IK-H0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:13:17 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M8R00I00BUCQP00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:12:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M8R00IKZBX0DJ90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:12:36 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: 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:152522 Archived-At: > From: "John Wiegley" > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:54:17 -0500 > > >>>>> Daniel Colascione writes: > > > I have a bunch of patches locked up in my git mirror of the Emacs trunk. I'd > > like to commit some of them, and that involves pushing these patches to a > > bzr branch before pushing them to the main repository. But I can't the > > patches out of git. I can't find any working git-to-bzr packages that work > > with the Emacs trunk. The wiki suggests git-bzr, but both git-bzr and > > git-bzr-ng both complain (via git-fast-import) about missing committer > > records. Does anyone have a working bidirectional git setup? > > I have never succeeded in getting anything to work, just FYI, and I've tried > several different things. If you can figure out something, please let me > know, because it impairs my ability to contribute upstream as well. I don't understand the problem. What's wrong with generating diffs from the git repo and then applying them to the bzr repo?