bzr-p4: Perforce foreign branches for Bazaar

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Matt McClure wrote:
| I poked around a few months ago looking for Perforce foreign branch
| support for Bazaar, and I didn't find much.  I've been hacking on
| Robey Pointer's bzr2p4
|
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/20710)
| a bit.  I've added a few tests to cover the existing functionality,
| with a few changes to make it work on Windows for myself.  The test
| fixtures use the Perforce Python API
| (http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadsupp.html) and p4d to bootstrap
| a Perforce server.  Admittedly, my work so far is immature, and my
| understanding of the scope of a full bzr-p4 implementation is naive.
| Still, I wanted to share what I have in case others are interested in
| taking a look.  My branch is http://mlm.webfactional.com/bzr-p4 .  I
| welcome all feedback, positive and negative.
|
| Matt
|
|

It is great to see work being done in this area. You might consider
writing a p4-fast-export instead, since that seems to be the general
tendency for conversions. It isn't as fully-bidirectional as bzr-svn,
but it is probably an easier route to get started.

Just a thought.

John
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