Bazaar Fast Import

lp:~onehundredthirty/bzr-fastimport/mirroring-only-debian-dir

Created by Leonid Borisenko and last modified

I maintain Debian package with git-buildpackage: 'master' branch of Git repository contains imported upstream source with introduced debian/ directory.

Ubuntu version of the same package (which I also maintain) mainly based on Debian package, but has specific changes.

I've chose Bazaar for maintaining Ubuntu package source because of exciting collaboration infrastructure of Launchpad. And Bazaar has bzr-builddeb with the same workflow as git-buildpackage: upstream source of packaged software periodically imported in 'trunk' branch, where debian/ directory is located. My choice.

Generally I want independently import upstream source in Bazaar repository of Ubuntu package and in Git repository of Debian package, but have the possibility of syncing debian/ directory in Bazaar repository with debian/ directory from Git repository.

With this requirement I can't base Ubuntu package repository on the Bazaar mirror of whole Git repository of Debian package, because upstream sources in these repositories can intentionally have different versions (i.e. content) at the same time.

So I need for mirror of only debian/ directory from Git repository.

I can't use 'bzr fast-import-filter'. Mainly because of wish for keeping in Bazaar repository original (unfiltered) commits too. They are required for supporting 'filecopy' and 'filerename' commands of fast-import format (these commands are operating with _paths_ of source and destination locations). In distant future I can copy file from main directory to debian/ subdirectory in Git repository and commit the change. This is where solution with fast-import-filter will not work, because there will be nothing at source path in Bazaar repository. Also 'fast-import-filter' didn't support incremental mirroring (it fails when 'from' command references to previous commit nonexistent in filtered stream).

And I've made this hacky version of bzr-fastimport. Described behavior could be enabled by passing option '--with-hacks-for-mirroring-only-debian-directory' to 'bzr fast-import' command.

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Owner:
Leonid Borisenko
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Bazaar Fast Import
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286. By Leonid Borisenko

Check for corner case of merging

Exclude from merged-in parents of filtered revision those, which branch
doesn't introduce any filtered revision at all.

285. By Leonid Borisenko

Remove warning output used for debug

284. By Leonid Borisenko

Integrate implementation of mirroring in GenericProcessor

283. By Leonid Borisenko

Add CommitHandler for mirroring only debian/ dir

282. By Leonid Borisenko

Don't use known graph in RevisionStore

281. By Leonid Borisenko

Check for explicitly setted revision_id in GenericCommitHandler

280. By Leonid Borisenko

Introduce read_only parameter for state changing CacheManager methods

279. By Leonid Borisenko

Pass option for mirroring only debian/ to GenericProcessor

278. By Leonid Borisenko

Added option for enabling mirroring only debian/ directory

277. By Jelmer Vernooij

Merge fixes from Miklos for darcs fast import.

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