Migrate from Bzr to Git

[Peter Levi]

bzr is practically dead, not supported in PyCharm, and GitHub is way more inviting to new potential contributors. It's high time.

Launchpad's import from git into bzr branch feature will be used to continue building automatically and to support the existing build recipes.

[James Lu (jlu5)]

I highly recommend using the git-remote-bzr package for this. With that installed, you can add bzr sources as a remote in any Git repo using something like 'git remote add launchpad bzr::lp:variety'. Then you can 'git fetch launchpad', branch off, and push to Git as another remote.

Commit history and author info is all preserved (even in a reproducible way AFAIK). I use this to import Variety sources in Debian packaging Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/variety.git/log/

[林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) (brlin)]

I wonder if this would help?
http://blog.launchpad.net/code/git-to-git-imports

[Yonsy (yonsy)]

one alternative can be to migrate to gitlab.com.

[James Lu (jlu5)]

A friend of mine kindly pointed out that Launchpad does in fact support Git hosting in conjunction with bzr. So, I've gone ahead and pushed a Git mirror of trunk to https://code.launchpad.net/variety/+git

The next step would be to set this repo as default if we agree that Git is the right way to go. Regarding the other bits of the project, I'd rather leave it as is since it's quite a lot of work to migrate large amounts of issues content, etc. between sites.