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On 12/6/2012 1:31 PM, Jari Aalto wrote:
> As of 2012-11-15 the future of this software is uncertain as the
> current development has stagnated. All the lead developers have left
> Canonical (the project owner). You might want to consider migrating to
> other alternative DVCS software, like Git or Mercurial, in a long term.

bzr provides a "fastimport" plugin that can be used to carry out the 
migration 
(http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/fastimport-plugin.html). 
Some Linux distributions provide this plugin as a separate package.  Are 
you interested in doing that for Cygwin?

Ken

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