bzr-p4: Perforce foreign branches for Bazaar

[Ian Clatworthy]

Matt McClure wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:20 PM, John Arbash Meinel
> <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I'm planning to take a closer look at git-p4
> (http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=tree;f=contrib/fast-import).
> It produces a fast-export representation internally and uses git
> fast-import directly.  I expect I can tease those two steps apart and
> get a fast-export representation of a Perforce project that
> bzr-fastimport can use.

That would be awesome. Please update http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrFastImport/FrontEnds
as things progress. I'm happy for your exporter to be bundled into the
fastimport plugin and to add you to the fastimport team on LP if you'd
like.

Ian C.