Re: Bazaar migration status?

[Ken Raeburn]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 04:19, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Most likely the history will come out different if you recreate the  
> git
> tree based on the bzr tree, but that's not a big problem.  If you
> maintain any local changes on top of the old git tree just rebase them
> on top of the new tree.

And if we're publishing (or planning to publish) git repositories with  
development work based on the Emacs one?  Rebasing is strongly  
discouraged for public repositories.  I'm not all that worried...  
sadly, this wouldn't be the first time VCS lossage has caused me to  
scrap the history of my little project and start again from my latest  
source tree. :-(

I'm not at all familiar with bzr or the conversion tools, but I wonder  
(somewhat idly) if it's possible to rebase within the savannah mirror  
or give it existing revisions as starting points and mirror only newer  
stuff on top of the old mirror... aside from needing to figure out  
what the mirroring scripts are keeping track of and adjust that data,  
it seems like basically the same work as you're suggesting anyone  
using git downstream should do for themselves.  (More work, but not  
repeated across however many people with varying levels of expertise.   
On the other hand, if the mirror ever needed reconstructing from  
scratch, it might not be easily reproducible.)

Ken