Emacs Fastimport Issues

[Max Bowsher]

Jason Earl wrote:
> I have some problems with the fastimport of the Emacs git repository
> that I could really use some help resolving.
> 
> The problems stem from my desire to sort out some of the issues outlined
> in this document:
> 
> http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/emacs-bzr-switchover/sanity-checks.txt
> 
> In particular I have been working on:
> 
> * Check that all tags are present.  [FAIL?]
> 
> As the document points out it appears that some tags go missing in the
> conversion.  What's more, I can resurrect these tags by using an older
> bit of head tracking logic.  Here's a branch with logic that gets the
> missing tags:
> 
> lp:~jearl/bzr-fastimport/missing_tags
> 
> With this code I get a whole pile of branches with names like
> amigados-merge.tag that contain the missing tags.
> 
> Unfortunately, this branch doesn't pass all of the fastimport tests, and
> so there is probably something very badly wrong with it.  I would
> continue my investigation to see what needs to be done, but I am
> becoming a bottleneck for the Emacs bzr switchover, and I simply don't
> have enough familiarity with bzr to figure this out in a timely manner.
> 
> So I am asking for some help.

Which version of bzr-fastimport was used? I helped fix one tag lossage
bug in r248.

What was used to generate the fastimport stream? cvs2bzr? If so I've
been hacking on that lately and have some fixes/changes that I'd love to
discuss with someone else doing a to-bzr conversion.

If I were to take it into my head to try running a test conversion of
emacs myself, just how much time would it take, and where would I get
the source repository snapshot?

Max.

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