How to migrate/convert from SVN to Mercurial (hg) on windows

Question

I\'m looking for a tool to migrate a couple of SVN repositories to Mercurial, with history, labels and so on.

I\'m using TortoiseHg (Windows x32), so ConvertExtensio

Answer 1

I just converted a remote SVN repo with HTTP auth to a Mercurial repo, and let me tell you, there's not a lot of documentation on how to do this. I had to download the Mercurial source and install it stand-alone, using the source package, that way the SVN bindings will work the right way.

I installed it like:

python setup.py install

Which worked just fine on my Server 2003 box. I can now convert an SVN repo the correct way, by doing something like this:

python c:\python26\scripts\hg convert 

The documentation for ConvertExtension on the Mercurial site isn't terribly clear, but it does say this:

There's no way to install the Subversion bindings into [Mercurial's] built-in Python library. So you'll need to use a Mercurial installed on top of a stand-alone Python

So now I just use the stand-alone version for converting, and TortoiseHg for actual VCS work.