<title>Import And Export</title>
Fossil has the ability to import and export repositories from and to
[http://git-scm.com/ | Git]. And since most other version control
systems will also import/export from Git, that means that you can
import/export a Fossil repository to most version control systems using
Git as an intermediary.
<h2>Git → Fossil</h2>
To import a Git repository into Fossil, run commands like this:
<blockquote><pre>
cd git-repo
git fast-export --all | fossil import --git new-repo.fossil
</pre></blockquote>
In other words, simply pipe the output of the "git fast-export" command
into the "fossil import --git" command. The 3rd argument to the "fossil import"
command is the name of a new Fossil repository that is created to hold the Git
content.
The --git option is not actually required. The git-fast-export file format
is currently the only VCS interchange format that Fossil understands. But
future versions of Fossil might be enhanced to understand other VCS
interchange formats, and so for compatibility, use of the
--git option is recommended.
<h2>Fossil → Git</h2>
To convert a Fossil repository into a Git repository, run commands like
this:
<blockquote><pre>
git init new-repo
cd new-repo
fossil export --git ../repo.fossil | git fast-import
</pre></blockquote>
In other words, create a new Git repository, then pipe the output from the
"fossil export --git" command into the "git fast-import" command.
Note that the "fossil export --git" command only exports the versioned files.
Tickets and wiki and events are not exported, since Git does not understand
those concepts.
As with the "import" command, the --git option is not required
since the git-fast-export file format is currently the only VCS interchange
format that Fossil will generate. However,
future versions of Fossil might add the ability to generate other
VCS interchange formats, and so for compatibility, the use of the --git
option recommended.
An anonymous user sends this comment:
<blockquote>
The main Fossil branch is called "trunk", while the main git branch is
called "master". After you've exported your FOSSIL repo to git, you won't
see any files and gitk will complain about a missing "HEAD". You can
resolve this problem by merging "trunk" with "master"
(first verify using git status that you are on the "master" branch):
<tt>git merge trunk</tt>
</blockquote>