Repo format conversion strategy?

[Doug Lee]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 02:05:03AM +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
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.

Ah, got me!  Ubuntu has not updated that package but I forgot to look for updates outside of apt.


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