Converting Subversion checkouts (not repositories) to Bazaar

[Forest Bond]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:17:47AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> The svn->bzr conversion problem comes when I want to overlay my shiny new
> Bazaar branch over the existing Subversion checkout.  I get tons of conflicts,
> with many .diverted files, even though the contents of those files are
> unchanged.  One poor solution was to e.g. mv docs{,.aside}, then re-checkout
> docs from Bazaar, and manually ensure that docs.aside was synchronized with
> docs (some files in docs hadn't been committed to the svn repo yet).  This was
> more painful in some directories and I rather dread the work to convert my
> $HOME.

bzr branch your home diretory branch into a fresh empty directory and then
moving the .bzr directory into your actual home directory.  I also version my
home directory and that's how I handle it.

Thanks,
Forest
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Forest Bond
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