Bzr fast-export return bzr: broken pipe

Question

I need to export my bzr repo to git. To do this i'm trying to use bzr fast-export --git-branch=mybranch --plain | git fast-import --force. The bzr starts to run but stops and return an error:

15:11:58 Calculating the revisions to include ... 
15:11:58 Starting export of 8961 revisions ... 
15:12:17 1000/8961 commits exported at 3155/minute  
15:12:30 2000/8961 commits exported at 3718/minute  
15:13:12 3000/8961 commits exported at 2421/minute  
fatal: Path data/sql/patch-02-27.sql not in branch 
fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_4632
bzr: broken pipe

Someone help me! Thanks!

Answer 1

In my experience fast-import/fast-export can fail due to out of memory.

This tends to happen when large binary files are present.

This has long been raised as an issue, but last time I remember checking (~september 2010) it didn't look like it was going to be addressed. At one time, I wasn't able to migrate my bazaar repository with history to git because of this.

I believe I may later managed to do so by switching to a 64 bit distribution.