Re: RFD: git-bzr: anyone interested?

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov@ubuntu.com>]

On 26 April 2010 22:41, Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How far did git-bzr or git-remote-bzr get?
>

Don't know, never used.

As far as I know bzr-git can fetch, clone, commit and push to/from
bzr/git repos. Not sure why you would want git-bzr

> I've tried git-bzr from the repo and I seem to be stumbling on bzr not
> having the fast-export command after I install the fast-import plugin
> as per [1]. So I think its a bazzar problem not a git-bzr one. Has
> anyone got a fully worked example including the installation of the
> required bits and pieces.
>

fast-export would loose information AFAIK use bzr-git with dalwich.

> Alternatively what I'm really trying to do is update a series of
> patches for an upstream project that is managed with bazzar. We have
> 30 or so patches with our customizations so I'd like to get git (or
> bzr) to do the heavy lifting for me. In git I'd do something like this
>
> git clone <upstream>
bzr branch <upstream>
> git checkout <tag that corresponds to the version of the tarball we use>
bzr checkout -rtag:<tagname> tag-branch
> git checkout -b our-patches
cd tag-branch
> git am <patches>
bzr patch patch1 patch2 patch2
> git rebase <tag that corresponds to the new version we want to use>
bzr rebase ../<upstream>
> git format-patch ...
>
bzr log -p; or bazaar send -p or create bundle depends on what you want.

> Anybody got a similar recipe for bzr? (yes I'll go ask on the bzr list too)
>

Although I think you really want
http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrPipeline which helps you import
patches ontop of a branch, update upstream, update (merge) patches,
and export them again. It's something like quilt, topgit but
bzr-styled ;-)

> [1] http://github.com/kfish/git-bzr/blob/master/README

=) hope this helps.

ps. anyone can help with repo.or.cz not reusing objects from parent
when pushing to a fork? reported to admin@repo.or.cz they can
reproduce the bug but something dodgy is going on. Thanks. Me will
shut up about bzr now =)