Another bzr2git example

Today, I tried to switch one of my personal repositories for debian-related scripts from bzr to git, just like I've done for pmount. The trick was that this time, I wanted to only move a part of the repository, not the full repository. I had only been working before with CVS and SVN who have the idea of modules, which is not the case for bzr or git. So I made the mistake of using a single bzr for several projects, which I realize now is not a very good idea...

In any case, I managed to drop some parts and here is how I did it; the trick was precisely to use SVN as an intermediate storage medium, using the following configurations files. First, bzr2svn.conf

[DEFAULT]
verbose = True
patch-name-format = ""

[project]
source = bzr:source
target = svn:target
start-revision = INITIAL
state-file = tailor.state

[bzr:source]
repository = /home/vincent/debian-devel/bzr/scripts

[svn:target]
repository = file:///tmp/testtai
module = biniou

and svn2git.conf:

[DEFAULT]
verbose = True
patch-name-format = ""

[project]
source = svn:source
target = git:target
start-revision = INITIAL
root-directory = /home/vincent/tmp/debian-mr-copyright-mode
state-file = tailor.state

[svn:source]
repository = file:///tmp/testtai
module = biniou/debian-mr-copyright-mode

[git:target]
git-command=/usr/bin/git

Then, all that is left to do is to run tailor on the resulting configuration files:

~ tailor -D -c bzr2svn.conf
~ tailor -D -c svn2git.conf

Sanitizing bad UTF-8

I've hit a problem recently where statsvn does not manage to generate statistics on one of my repositories. After investigation, it turned out that there are some raw latin1 sequences in the XML log file (from a conversion from latin to UTF-8 long time ago), and that makes logfile parsing fail. To sanitize this, I use the following filter:

iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8

This way, obnoxious sequences are dropped and processing can go on. (or, at least, could go on if it was not failing just a little later with a Null pointer exception...).

pmount switching to git

I've been neglecting pmount for such a long time I feel ashamed about it. Thanks to tailor and a neat post, I've just switched it to a git repository at git://git.debian.org/git/pmount/pmount.git to get more work done (I don't like bzr too much in the end, don't flame me, it's just a matter of personal taste...). I hope that I'll be able to reduce the amazing number of bugs that have accumulated there...