bzr-p4: Perforce foreign branches for Bazaar

[Matt McClure]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 8:57 AM, dhruva <dhruva at ymail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am very interested in following this development. Please let me
> know if there is README or USAGE document. Could this be used as a
> continuous updating from p4-bzr-p4 or is it a only time p4-bzr tool. I
> have used git-p4 but not used it to submit changes back to p4 as we use a
> template for p4 submission.

Thanks for your interest!

I haven't written any user documentation yet.

I maintain lists of what's done and where I'm headed in the NEWS and
TODO files in the branch
(http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~matthewlmcclure/bzrp4/trunk/files).

At the moment, I'm working on Perforce-to-Bazaar migration.  I'm
breaking apart Simon Hausmann's git-p4 so that I can intercept the
git-fast-export format that it produces before it delivers the
git-fast-export data to git-fast-import.  I hope the Bazaar
fast-import plugin will handle the rest of the job to create a Bazaar
branch.

I also want a production-quality tool that handles the return trip
from Bazaar to Perforce, but it's not the focus of my current effort.
I'm using Robey Pointer's bzr2p4 in my automated tests, and evolving
it only as necessary.

I don't personally use either git-p4 or bzr2p4 for my day-to-day work
yet.  I gather that Robey was using his tool when he published it, and
that a number of people use git-p4, and I'm doing my best to make my
changes in ways that only improve these tools and never introduce
regressions.

Matt