combining git and monotone

Question

I need to work with an monotone repository. However I'm used to git and looking for way to push my changes into monotone (like git-svn). According to monotone doc I can import the monotone repo into git. But do you know some good way to push my changes from git back to monotone?

Answer 1

The first way I took was to mixing up git and monotone. Monotone maintains its internal information in directory _MTN. First I checked out the original monotone repository. After that I ran a git init in the new directory and imported all files. So I had one directory which is under monotone and git. In git I maintain one branch which is a pulling branch. It means only original changes from the monotone repository are imported. Furthermore there are a few other branches in git where I develop changes. In general this is a more dirty solution.

Lately I came across tailor. This does exactly what I wanted. From the description in Debian:

migrate changesets between version control systems

The tailor tool moves patches and changesets between different repositories, preserving as much information as possible. The repositories can be managed by different version control systems. Currently, ArX, Bazaar, Bazaar-NG, Codeville, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion, and Tla are supported.

While tailor is useful for one-time operation, when switching to a different version control system, it can also synchronise repositories on an ongoing basis. Changesets are either pulled one-way from a master repository, or migrated back and forth for full two-way synchronisation.