Converting a Mercurial (hg) repository to Git on Windows (7)

Question

I\'m really quite frustrated at this point. I have an existing hg repository that has months of coding history in it, and I want to get this into a private Github repository

Answer 1

There is a lot of conflicting information about how to convert Mercurial repositories to Git on Windows. It really is pretty easy and only requires TortoiseHg and Git to be installed.

Preparation

Enable hg-git by adding the following to your Mercurial config file (%Userprofile%\mercurial.ini):

[extensions]
hggit = 
hgext.bookmarks =

[git]
intree = True

Conversion

Navigate to the repository directory (that contains the .hg subdirectory) on the command line and execute the following commands:

hg bookmark -r default master
hg gexport --debug
git config --bool core.bare false
git reset HEAD -- .

More information

You can find a detailed description of these steps in my blog article on the subject.