Bazaar Fast Import

Bug #672389
Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 672389

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Eric S. Raymond (esr-thyrsus) wrote on 2010-11-08: Re: [Bug 672389] Re: bzr fast-import crashes on a dump produced by bzr fast-export

#11

Jelmer Vernooij <email address hidden>:
> It also looks like you're running on Lucid rather than maverick? Or
> perhaps the error is referring to an old record?

You know, I'm actually not sure how to tell. I upgrade rhe machine
incrementally; it's not giving me the notification that a system
upgrade is waiting, which caused me to believe I was up to Maverick
level. How would you check.

> I'm sorry, it looks like you picked the worst moment to try out
> bzr-fastimport as I split python-fastimport out of bzr-fastimport (by
> far the largest change in over a year) yesterday evening. This, like the
> other issue you ran into, is unexpected fallout of that. I did some
> fairly extensive testing of bzr fastimport before doing this split but I
> still seem to've missed a few things and apparently uncovered some blind
> spots in our testsuite.

Been there myself, and probably will be again; naive-user tests do have a way
of catching one with one's pants down. So I won't rant at you or anything. But
this leaves two issues:

1. The bzr help-import documentation neve anywhere I can see, explains
that the "source" argument is a branch name or what the namespaces and
semantics of branch names are. This is a documentation bug that needs
to be fixed.

2. What's a branch name? Why do I care? Does it select only part of the
repository? If so, why can't I leave it out and get all branches exported?
Is there some magic cookie I can put there that means "give me all branches"?

> > * *commit-properties* - custom metadata per commit that Bazaar stores
> > in revision properties (e.g. branch-nick and bugs fixed by this
> > change) will be included in the output.
> > If commit-properties are now officially part of the format, that's
> > one of my feature requests down - but I can't find any indication of
> > this in the git docs. What's the actual state of play?
> This is a bzr extension. I think bzr will emit it using the new
> "feature" extension that should be documented in the git docs. I'm not
> sure how official the commit-properties field is.

What's its syntax? Is it documented somewhere? I need to know enough to
parse it.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

Jelmer Vernooij <672389@bugs.launchpad.net>:
> It also looks like you're running on Lucid rather than maverick? Or
> perhaps the error is referring to an old record?

You know, I'm actually not sure how to tell.  I upgrade rhe machine
incrementally; it's not giving me the notification that a system
upgrade is waiting, which caused me to believe I was up to Maverick
level.  How would you check.

Been there myself, and probably will be again; naive-user tests do have a way 
of catching one with one's pants down. So I won't rant at you or anything. But
this leaves two issues:

1. The bzr help-import documentation neve anywhere I can see, explains
that the "source" argument is a branch name or what the namespaces and
semantics of branch names are.  This is a documentation bug that needs
to be fixed.

2. What's a branch name?  Why do I care?  Does it select only part of the 
repository? If so, why can't I leave it out and get all branches exported?
Is there some magic cookie I can put there that means "give me all branches"?

> >  * *commit-properties* - custom metadata per commit that Bazaar stores
> >    in revision properties (e.g. branch-nick and bugs fixed by this
> >    change) will be included in the output.
> > If commit-properties are now officially part of the format, that's 
> > one of my feature requests down - but I can't find any indication of
> > this in the git docs.  What's the actual state of play?
> This is a bzr extension. I think bzr will emit it using the new
> "feature" extension that should be documented in the git docs. I'm not
> sure how official the commit-properties field is.

What's its syntax?  Is it documented somewhere?  I need to know enough to
parse it.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>