Converting from svn to bzr?

[Matt Nordhoff]

Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> Patrick van der Velde wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I've been trying to convert an old SVN repository to a bzr branch
>> however I'm not having much luck. I grabbed the latest release (bzr
>> 1.12.1) and installed that successfully. With that I tried to use the
>> bzr-svn command by entering the command: bzr svn-import PATH_TO_REPO
>> trunk
>> Unfortunately that failed with a windows error message saying:
>> bzr.exe - Entry point not found: The procedure entry point
>> __lc_collate_cp_func could not be located in the dynamic link library
>> msvcrt.dll
>>
>> And the stack trace was:
>>
>> D:\documents\petrik\support\backup\software\mcs>bzr svn-import
>> svn://localhost/Research/PhdThesis/software/trunk trunk
>> bzr: ERROR: exceptions.ImportError: Unable to load subvertpy
>> extensions - did you build it?
> 
> This is a known issue with the bzr 1.2 installer -- search the mailing

Err, 1.12.

> list archives. It wasn't correctly building/installing one of bzr-svn's
> dependencies, subvertpy.
> 
> I thought this had been fixed, but I could be wrong. Do you have the
> latest installer?

Links are:

<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.announce/205/focus=52296>
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/52374>
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/327966>

If I understand correctly, that issue should be fixed in the 1.12rc1-2
installer (and 1.12-1?), but you may run into other issues.

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