This is just a test of pushing from a Breezy repo to GitHub and GitLab.

I'm not friends with Git, so this is is a test to see if I can do it with Breezy instead.

First you need to install bzr-git, this is done in Ubuntu via sudo apt install bzr-git

We then need to add GitHub to the ~/.bazaar/authentication.conf file:

[github.com]
scheme=https
host=github.com
user=gegoxaren

For GitLab we do something similar:

[gitlab.com]
scheme=https
host=gitlab.com
user=gustav.hartvigsson

Note: I did not put my password in the file, and that is something you should not do, it is actively discouraged by Breezy, and it will warn you.

Note: GitHub is moving away from allowing password authentication over https, so we will need to add an ssh key to make it work.

Then you have to push it, in this case this is what I did, over https, you do as follows:

bzr push --lossy https://github.com/gegoxaren/bzr-test.git/,branch=master

Using SSH:

bzr push ush [email protected]:gegoxaren/bzr-test.git,branch=master

Note: That instead of a slash followed by a comma at the end, there is just a comma, and there is no need for the --lossy flag (It will not actually work at all.)

Or on GitLab:

bzr push https://gitlab.com/gustav.hartvigsson/bzr-test.git,branch=master

The branch name is put in the end of the URL, in this case ,branch=master.

To push to a new remote-branch, we use a different branch name. I will use my-awesome-fix for in this example.

bzr push --lossy https://github.com/gegoxaren/bzr-test.git/,branch=my-awesome-fix

This will create a new branch on github, and it is usable on github as any other git branch when merging.

To create a local branch from a git branch, we do the following:

bzr branch https://github.com/gegoxaren/bzr-test.git/,branch=master

This will branch the git repo to a local branch called bzr-test.git, that is perhaps not what you want, bit that is easy to fix by just putting a name after it:

bzr branch https://github.com/gegoxaren/bzr-test.git/,branch=master bzr-test

This will branch to a local branch called bzr-test.

Of course this works with other branches as well:

bzr branch https://github.com/gegoxaren/bzr-test.git/,branch=my-awesome-fix bzr-test-my-awesome-fix

Note on when to use --lossy or not.

This might be a bit confusing, but if you pull a repository using bzr-git, it will not create a Breezy repository, but a git repository. This is unexpected, to say the least.

If it is a native git repository than you should not use '--lossy' but if it is a Breezy repository then you should use '--lossy'.