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After reading and watching a lot of git I want to give it a try. I used Bazaar-ng (bzr) for some time now, but just for my own, small projects. I searched the internet to find a way to convert my project and don't loose the history. I stumbled upon bzr-fastimport in which a bzr-fast-export.py exists in the export directory. But nowhere was a word about what to do with it.

First of all you need to go into the top level of your bzr working tree and make it a git repository.

$ git init

That's the easy part. Now you have to add all the files you had under bzr control.

$ git add file1 file2 dir1 dir2

I did this individually as not all the files in the directory should be under revision control. You could just say

$ git add .

to add all files under the current directory (except .git). But I guess this will even add the .bzr directory what you not want.

After this the interesting part, getting the old history. (I assume you named your bzr repository foo.)

$ /some/path/bzr-fast-export.py foo | git-fast-import

And finally commiting it

$ git commit -m "import of old bzr repo"

This worked for me, hope it works for you, too.