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Re: Mercurial to git converter.

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Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Date
Jan 12, 2007, 20:14 UTC
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Le vendredi 12 janvier 2007 à 20:28 +0100, Jakub Narebski a écrit :
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> Stelian Pop wrote:
> 
> > I switched recently from Mercurial to git for some of my projects, and
> > needed a conversion tool with branch support (unlike tailor). I didn't
> > find any, so I ended up writing my own one. 
> > 
> > hg-to-git.py can probably be greatly improved (it's a rather crude
> > combination of shell and python) but it does already work quite well for
> > me. Features:
> >       - supports incremental conversion (keep a git repo in sync 
> >         with a hg repository)
> >       - supports hg branches
> >       - converts hg tags 
> > 
> > Feel free to use it, improve it or even include it in mainline git (like
> > git-svn and friends).
> 
> Thanks. Added to
>   http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#hg-to-git
Thanks.
> (Perhaps you should send it as git patch adding file contrib/hg-to-git.py
> or contrib/git-hgimport/hg-to-git.py ?)
Sure, I can do that (patch against 'master', right ?)

Do I put this in contrib/ as you suggest or directly in / (where friends like git-p4import.py live) ? What is most likely to be accepted ?

Stelian.
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