From: Joachim Schmitz Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:56:09 GMT Subject: Re: Can git pull from a mercurial repository? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Gelonida N wrote: > On 09/18/2012 02:40 PM, 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) It seems >> https://github.com/rfk/git-remote-hg requires Python 2.5 >> (and I only have 2.4), also I have no idea how to get it installed >> https://github.com/SRabbelier/git is 3 years old, apparently never >> made it into git, guess for a reason? Then I found >> https://github.com/fingolfin/git/commits/remote-hg, >> looks very confusing to me... > > Install a newer python and hg > Are you really sure, that python 2.5 doesn't exist for your machine? Yes, I am sure. Python 2.4 had been ported more than 5 years ago by a former workmate, otherwise we wouldn't even have that. > Most non embedded devices should offer python 2.5 or newer > (for some distros you just have to add 'alternative' repositories) For this platform (HP NonStop) basically nothing is available from any repository on the web but ITUGLIB (http://ituglib.connect-community.org) and that's the machine I'm working on/for ;-) We're currently trying to port Python-2.7, but it ain't easy... Bye, Jojo