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From: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: remote-bzr status
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:17:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA8F2F1.5090407@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

It's been a very long time now since I talked about this on the list.
The project (integration with Bazaar through a remote helper) is not
dead, it's just stalled because of bugs in the chosen "backend".

The remote helper code was done in python (mostly based off of Sverre's
remote-hg code) and relies on the "bzr-fastimport" tool. It can be found
on my github repository:

http://github.com/lelutin/git-remote-bzr


First off, what was done for now?

- The remote helper is able to pull in changes in Git repos and to
create tags.
- It is possible to push changes back _but_ only in some situations. The
"bzr-fastimport" tool currently has bugs [1] that prevent it from doing
what we want. I have included a patch in the remote helper repository to
fix one issue on the fix that was proposed but the whole thing is not
completely fixed.

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-fastimport/+bug/347729


Why did I lag this much on this project?
Mostly because of lack of time. My $dayjob was far too demanding. But
since I am now self-employed, I want to find some time to work on this
and get it through.


I tried tinkering directly with "bzrlib" to make my own tool to
import/export information from/to Bazaar, but it is a tremendous PITA
(unstable API, bad documentation, exceptions thrown are not always easy
to understand).


I have been working on the bzr-fastimport bugs but I didn't receive any
feedback from maintainers. So I currently am wondering if I need to be
pushing for this tool to be fixed or if I should reimplement it.

Any help and/or support would be appreciated. I'll keep posting status
updates when I have new info or progress on the project.

-- 
Gabriel Filion

             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-03 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-03 21:17 Gabriel Filion [this message]
2010-10-03 22:37 ` remote-bzr status Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-04  6:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04 18:03   ` Gabriel Filion
2010-10-04 18:07     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-06  1:24       ` Gabriel Filion
2010-10-07 21:27         ` Sverre Rabbelier

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