Re: Bazaar references complicate the git transition

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:27:00 -0500
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>
> 
> I know from lots of previous experience with messy conversions (NUT,
> Hercules, Roundup, groff, and a number of others) that these sorts of
> halfway-out-of-band mechanisms are fragile and *never* work as well as
> advertised.  The pain you think you are avoiding with them will come 
> back redoubled.

"bzr log" suggests that there are only about 120 commits that
reference other revisions.  Perhaps this isn't worth the trouble?  Any
forensics in the future can find the referenced revision, if it needs
to, given some small effort.