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[Povilas Kanapickas <povilas@xxxxxxxx>]

On 11/27/2013 10:47 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:14:10PM +0200, Povilas Kanapickas wrote:
> 
> The fact that bzr has so few commits would be in fact a sign that's
> working fine IMHO :D
> 
I believe this is not the case. See [1] and e.g. this post [2].

> Please no VCS holy wars, but I don't feel the need for changing system if
> the current one works...

I share your view. I just think that there's high chance that migration
away from bzr will happen in the future anyway, thus the proposal. I
will unconditionally accept any strong objections.

> Also what about the pain of a) converting the repo and b) converting all
> the private repos out there? if it where, like, svn just migrate (if
> possible without losing a thing) and you are fine. DVCS instead need
> a way bigger involvement to migrate!

Bzr to git migration is very easy. The commands are very similar to the
following script:

# we are in <..>/kicad.bzr
mkdir ../tmp.git && cd ../tmp.git
git init --bare
bzr fast-export ../kicad.bzr <branch> | git fast-import
mkdir ../kicad.git
git clone ../tmp.git
# current dir has a git-to-bzr clone

The above may contain some errors or typos as I don't have the exact
script that I used to convert several other fairly large projects at hand.

Thus I believe even private repo migration shouldn't involve more than
several minutes of developers time.

Regards,
Povilas

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bugs
[2]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-03/msg00781.html