Repo format conversion strategy?
Jelmer Vernooij
jelmer at jelmer.uk
Thu Nov 6 02:05:03 UTC 2025
On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 01:34:47PM -0500, Doug Lee wrote:
>I've experimented with converting from .bzr to .git format for some of my projects, but encountered these roadblocks:
>
>* The fastexport | fastimport techniques fail with file reference errors.
>* Modifying that to use marks (an AI suggestion) taught me that Git can't read a brz marks file (without massaging that I didn't do, perhaps).
>* reposurgeon fails with a reference error to what looks like a branch or folder name.
>* brz push --lossy to a git inited repo works but sends over zero of my tags.
This should be fixed in the latest versions of Breezy; 3.3.11 is too old.
Cheers,
Jelmer
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