Possibly Dumb Question about Switching a Bazaar Branch from Subversion to Git
Russel Winder
russel.winder at concertant.com
Mon Mar 8 13:44:24 GMT 2010
Jelmer,
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 14:23 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
[ . . . ]
> There is no common history here, so there isn't much that can be done.
> You could do a "bzr merge -r0..-1" to force a merge but you would get a
> lot of file conflicts because the files have no common ancestry.
Sad but I do understand -- it's just that I *know* the histories in the
two cases are identical, so it is a bit frustrating that the tools have
no way of dealing with this.
> I'd recommend just switching over to the new branch and asking people to
> "bzr pull --overwrite" from the public branches to get the new git-based
> Bazaar branch.
OK, that works for me even though I said it was a last resort.
Thanks.
(Now just waiting on Bazaar handling internal Git branches ;-)
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