Migrating libertine repos from bzr to git

fastimport.patch

--- commands.py	2016-04-18 22:24:36.000000000 +0300
+++ /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fastimport/commands.py	2017-04-10 17:17:41.473457256 +0300
@@ -501,11 +501,11 @@
     else:
         sep = b' '
 
-    name = utf8_bytes_string(name)
+    #name = utf8_bytes_string(name)
 
     email = fields[1]
 
-    email = utf8_bytes_string(email)
+    #email = utf8_bytes_string(email)
 
     return b''.join((name, sep, b'<', email, b'> ', ("%d" % fields[2]).encode('ascii'), b' ', offset_str))

INFO.md

1. Needed to patch fastimport (see fastimport.patch)
2. Switch to bzr directory
3. git init
4. bzr fast-export --plain . | git fast-import
5. rm -rf .bzr
6. git log --format=%H --first-parent > hashes
7. tac hashes | tail -n +2 > reversed_hashes
8. Determine initial commit (we'll refer to it as $initial_commit)
9. git checkout $initial_commit
10. `git checkout -b top-level-commits
11. cat reversed_hashes | xargs -I % bash -c "git cherry-pick % || git cherry-pick -m 1 %"
12. Create a new repo on git repo on any service (refer to address as $repo_addr)
13. git remote add origin $repo_addr
14. git push origin top-level-commits:master