bzr-git: keep empty directories
hello, when converting a repo from bzr to git: mkdir freeplane-git1 cd freeplane-git1 git init . bzr fast-export --plain --export-marks=../marks.bzr ../trunk/ | git fast-import --export-marks=../marks.git git checkout Empty directories are not contained in the git working index. This is because of the --plain option, which Excludes metadata to maximise interoperability and thus does not support empty directories (http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/fastimport-plugin.html). However, when I use --no-plain (which according to above documentation exports empty directories), git cannot handle it: $ ./freeplane2git.sh Initialized empty Git repository in /home/felix/git/freeplane-git1/.git/ 15:56:09 Calculating the revisions to include ... 15:56:09 Starting export of 4290 revisions ... fatal: This version of fast-import does not support feature commit-properties. fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_3915 bzr: broken pipe I already tried to hack bzr-fastimport's exporter.py so that it does not emit commit properties but emits empty directories but i was not successful. So is there another way to preserve empty directories or shall I report a bug on bzr fast-export? Many thanks in advance! -- Felix Natter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: bzr-git: keep empty directories
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Felix Natter fnat...@gmx.net wrote: hello, when converting a repo from bzr to git: mkdir freeplane-git1 cd freeplane-git1 git init . bzr fast-export --plain --export-marks=../marks.bzr ../trunk/ | git fast-import --export-marks=../marks.git git checkout Empty directories are not contained in the git working index. This is because of the --plain option, which Excludes metadata to maximise interoperability and thus does not support empty directories (http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/fastimport-plugin.html). However, when I use --no-plain (which according to above documentation exports empty directories), git cannot handle it: $ ./freeplane2git.sh Initialized empty Git repository in /home/felix/git/freeplane-git1/.git/ 15:56:09 Calculating the revisions to include ... 15:56:09 Starting export of 4290 revisions ... fatal: This version of fast-import does not support feature commit-properties. fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_3915 bzr: broken pipe I already tried to hack bzr-fastimport's exporter.py so that it does not emit commit properties but emits empty directories but i was not successful. So is there another way to preserve empty directories or shall I report a bug on bzr fast-export? Many thanks in advance! I would suggest hacking it to optionally not emit commit properties as step one. A later enhancement would be to optionally create directories with empty .gitignore files, or something similar. git really doesn't care about empty directories. -- David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: bzr-git: keep empty directories
Perhaps having a file named something like: .git_foreign_scm_empty_dir or some shorter name. With the contents of the fast importer empty directory info put in there; If any book keeping is needed. It also looks like you strip out meta-data. perhaps a file like: .git_foreign_scm_metadata We could use the .git/config file format for storing the bookkeeping data. Steve On Jul 14, 2012, at 3:46 PM, David Aguilar wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Felix Natter fnat...@gmx.net wrote: hello, when converting a repo from bzr to git: mkdir freeplane-git1 cd freeplane-git1 git init . bzr fast-export --plain --export-marks=../marks.bzr ../trunk/ | git fast-import --export-marks=../marks.git git checkout Empty directories are not contained in the git working index. This is because of the --plain option, which Excludes metadata to maximise interoperability and thus does not support empty directories (http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/fastimport-plugin.html). However, when I use --no-plain (which according to above documentation exports empty directories), git cannot handle it: $ ./freeplane2git.sh Initialized empty Git repository in /home/felix/git/freeplane-git1/.git/ 15:56:09 Calculating the revisions to include ... 15:56:09 Starting export of 4290 revisions ... fatal: This version of fast-import does not support feature commit-properties. fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_3915 bzr: broken pipe I already tried to hack bzr-fastimport's exporter.py so that it does not emit commit properties but emits empty directories but i was not successful. So is there another way to preserve empty directories or shall I report a bug on bzr fast-export? Many thanks in advance! I would suggest hacking it to optionally not emit commit properties as step one. A later enhancement would be to optionally create directories with empty .gitignore files, or something similar. git really doesn't care about empty directories. -- David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
