Re: Mercurial to git converter.

From: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Date: Jun 14, 2008, 10:23 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20080614T101342-542@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1168537766.22649.19.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Stelian Pop <stelian <at> popies.net> writes:

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> 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.

Here's a patch to fix that:

diff -u -r1.1 hg-to-git.py --- hg-to-git.py +++ hg-to-git.py

@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
         mparent = None

     (fdcomment, filecomment) = tempfile.mkstemp()
-    csetcomment = os.popen('hg log -r %d -v | grep -v ^changeset: | grep -v 
^parent: | grep -v ^user: | grep -v ^date | grep -v ^files: | grep -v 
^description: | grep -v ^tag:' % cset).read().strip()
+    csetcomment = os.popen('hg log -r %d -v | egrep -v "^(changeset|parent|
user|date|files|description|tag|branch):" ' % cset).read().strip()
     os.write(fdcomment, csetcomment)
     os.close(fdcomment)


Nick.