Converting Mercurial folder to a Git repository

Question

I don\'t have a huge experience with Mercurial, I\'m mostly a Git guy.

I would love to mirror a specific Mercurial folder/file in a git Repository. What I\'m actuall

Answer 1

On Linux or anything with bash/sh or similar, or python, try with fast export:

cd
git clone git://repo.or.cz/fast-export.git
git init git_repo
cd git_repo
~/fast-export/hg-fast-export.sh -r /path/to/old/mercurial_repo
git checkout HEAD