From: Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:01:07 GMT
Subject: Re: mercurial to git
Message-ID: <20070308090107.GB2881@peter.daprodeges.fqdn.th-h.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070306215459.GI18370@thunk.org>

Hi,

* Theodore Tso [07-03-06 16:54:59 -0500] wrote:

>Hmm.... the way I was planning on handling the performance bottleneck
>was to use "hg manifest --debug <rev>" and diffing the hashes against
>its parents.  Using "hg manifest" only hits .hg/00manifest.[di] and
>.hg/00changelog.[di] files, so it's highly efficient.  With the
>--debug option to hg manifest (not needed on some earlier versions of
>hg, but it seems to be needed on the latest development version of
>hg), it outputs the mode and SHA1 hash of the files, so it becomes
>easy to see which files were changed relative to the revision's
>parent(s).

>Once we know which files we need to feed to git-fast-import, it's just
>a matter of using "hg cat -r <rev> <pathname>" to feed the individual
>changed file to git-fast-import.

I've done that now and the repositories come out as before in about 10 
minutes. Also I sanitized the tags handling and will push out the 
changed version somewhere soon.

   bye, Rocco
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:wq!