Call for help: Making the move to Bazaar an easier one

[Ian Clatworthy]

Are you familiar with another VCS tool? Are you an active bzr-svn or
bzr-git user? Do you have access to repositories in another tool that
you could try migrating to Bazaar? If so, then the Bazaar development
team needs your help.

Over the last week, I've been working hard on making it easier for users
and projects to make the switch to Bazaar. As well as working with some
upstream projects/plugins to make it easier to get data out of other
tools, I've put together a collection of "migration documents" here:
http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/migration/en/. (For those who hate clicking on
links, I've attached a screenshot.)

As you can see, there are 2 main documents:

* a Data Migration Guide - recipes for migrating history into bzr

* a Survival Guide - bzr explained in terms native speakers of other
  tools already know.

The first document needs review and validation(#). The second document
needs lots of content provided by community members. There are also a
few tutorials explaining how to use Bazaar on projects still using other
tools, e.g. by using the bzr-svn plugin. Most of these tutorials also
need content and review from community members. (Jelmer is on vacation
so it would be good if some end users helped here.)

If you're familiar with Subversion, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Perforce,
ClearCase, Darcs, Monotone, Arch or Visual SourceSafe, please take a
look at the site above and help where you can with providing content,
reviewing and migration testing!

BTW, the recipe for migrating data from tool xxx to Bazaar using
bzr-fastimport is now generally:

  bzr fast-export-from-xxx project.fi
  bzr fast-import project.fi project.bzr

If you are running bzr 1.17 or later, project.bzr will be a shared
repository created in 2a format, making it really easy for users of
other tools to try out our new format.

Ian C.

#: Recent changes in bzr 1.18 are triggering some bugs in bzr-fastimport
that I still need to fix. I'll let everyone know as soon as I've done
that. In the meantime, you can still get started with migration testing.
Many small to medium projects should import fine and getting data out of
large projects can take many hours to several days. I *should* have
importing fixed in the next 24-48 hours. The more datasets ready to
import by then, the better.
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