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Re: Mercurial to git converter.

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Jun 16, 2008, 08:26 UTC
Message-ID
<20080616082633.GA10752@glandium.org>
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 04:53:04PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Nick Andrew wrote:
> 
> > Stelian Pop <stelian <at> popies.net> writes:
> > 
> > > 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. [...]
> > 
> > Thanks for that. One small problem is that it does not get the changelog 
> > right if a commit is made on a local branch. It thinks the "branch:" 
> > line is part of the changelog.
> 
> FWIW I switched my local mercurial2git conversion to the hg-fast-export 
> solution from 
> 
> 	git://repo.or.cz/fast-export.git

Would you happen to have a clonable mirror or this ? repo.or.cz doesn't respond.

Mike
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Message 14 of 15 in “Mercurial to git converter.”
  1. Stelian PopJan 11, 2007
  2. Jakub NarebskiJan 12, 2007
  3. Stelian PopJan 12, 2007
  4. Add hg-to-git conversion utility.Stelian Pop, Jan 12, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceJan 12, 2007
  6. Stelian PopJan 12, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 12, 2007
  8. Stelian PopJan 12, 2007
  9. Nick AndrewJun 14, 2008
  10. Johannes SchindelinJun 14, 2008
  11. Jakub NarebskiJun 14, 2008
  12. Shawn O. PearceJun 16, 2008
  13. Nick AndrewJun 16, 2008
  14. Mike HommeyJun 16, 2008
  15. Johannes SchindelinJun 17, 2008

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