Bazaar, Launchpad and Mercurial

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 02:21:41PM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> I have set up a branch on Launchpad that is supposed to mirror a
> Mercurial repository on BitBucket. Sadly this initial branch is failing.
> I thought to try and do an initial checkout locally to investigate the
> problem, but it seems hg-fast-export only creates a Git repository. 

> Anyone any pointers to helpful material for this sort of thing.

> I thought there used to be a bzr-hg package in Debian but Debian assures
> me there is not.  Has there ever been a bzr-hg package?

I maintained a bzr-hg package in Debian/Ubuntu for a while, but
recently requested its removal. bzr-hg hasn't had any active
maintainers in a quite time, and its state made it unfit for inclusion
in a release.

The Mercurial imports in Launchpad also use bzr-hg for imports at the
moment. There has been suggestion of marking them as alpha or
removing them altogether, instead of keeping them around in their
current broken state. (if they only work for less than half of the
users they're probably not worth keeping around).

The easiest way to maintain an import of a Mercurial branch is
probably to set up a Git export of the Mercurial branch, and then
using bzr-git or the Launchpad import system to import that Git
branch. The Git imports work pretty well, with the main exception of
submodules, but I don't think an export from Mercurial would create
any of those.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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