Importing from mercurial (some quirks and working recipe)

[Marcin Kasperski]

>> bzr: ERROR: Tags not supported by BzrBranch5('file:///home/marcink/tmp/TESTST/szachy_partie_moje.bzr/'); you may be able to use bzr upgrade --dirstate-tags.
>>
>> It was just a bit of luck that I guessed that above means "You must
>> use newer repository format" ;-)
>
> You probably could have just done:
>
> bzr init --dirstate-tags newdirectory

Whatever.... The term 'dirstate' really, really, really has no
meaning for yours truly (and, I guess, for everybody who is not
participating in some project technical discussions)


>> 3) I also tried bzr-hg (alternative plugin). This one seems to provide direct
>> bzr branch /path/to/mercurial/repo command, but ... crashes with (the crash is the same whether I use bzr 0.9, or 1.1.0):
>
> I don't think 'bzr branch /path/to/mercurial/repo ...' is what you
> want, (...) You still want to do "bzr init local;
> cd local; bzr pull /path/to/hg".

Something new happens:

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.TypeError: fetch() got an unexpected keyword argument 'find_ghosts'

> That said, I'm not sure of the current state of bzr-hg, it was
> originally written just to see if it could be done, so it may need
> more attention to keep it compatible.

Well, the page
http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrMigration#head-184585dc91c233ed059464286311bbed0c6d03dc
does not seem to warn about it ;-)


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