Re: Can git pull from a mercurial repository?

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 17, 2012, 12:44 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2DtMfeDQqgQfBamC3ZpbssnRrzveqP5nQ6Sehaw4+oVQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <37D17798-4BDC-433D-A9B4-49F4352754D9@quendi.de>

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Max Horn <postbox@quendi.de> wrote:

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> On 18.09.2012, at 14:40, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
>
>>> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae@op5.se]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:46 PM
>>> To: Joachim Schmitz
>>> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
>>> Subject: Re: Can git pull from a mercurial repository?
>>>
>>> On 09/18/2012 01:22 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote:
>>>> Is there an easy way to get git to clone/pull from a Mercurial repository?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. Google "git remote helpers" and you'll most likely find it.
>>
>> Well, I found a few. No idea how to get them to work though (so far for the 'easy' part of my question)
>
> I think there is a lot of demand for a "git-hg" bridge, a way to seemlessly access a Mercurial repository as if it was a git repository. A converse to hg-git <http://hg-git.github.com/>
>
> As you discovered, there are several attempts to this. A recent overview over some of them can be found here:
>
>   https://github.com/dubiousjim/yagh/blob/master/README.md

And here's a new one: https://github.com/felipec/git/blob/fc-remote-hd/contrib/remote-hd/git-remote-hg

I took a look at several of them, and none satisfied me; too complicated, depends on another tool, hard to install, etc. This one is simple, and works fine. Only for local repositories, and only for fetching at the moment, but it's easy to use, and doesn't require much to install.

I think it has good chances of getting into git mainline, and hopefully other people will help adding the rest of the features. The code is not hard at all :)

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras