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

Windows: TortoiseHG Hg-Git extension

Hg-Git can be used to convert a Mercurial repository to Git. You can use a local repository or a remote repository accessed via SSH, HTTP or HTTPS.

Example of local repositories conversion.

1. Install Hg-Git.

   • On Windows, TortoiseHg comes with Hg-Git, though you need to enable it via the setting tool (in extensions section)

     or manually in ~/mercurial.ini

     [extensions]
     hggit =
     

2. Use the following commands to convert the repository:

   $ mkdir git-repo; cd git-repo; git init; cd ..
   $ cd hg-repo
   $ hg bookmarks hg
   $ hg push ../git-repo
   

The hg bookmark is necessary to prevent problems as otherwise hg-git pushes to the currently checked out branch confusing Git. This will create a branch named hg in the Git repository. To get the changes in master use the following commands (only necessary in the first run, later just use git merge or rebase):

$ cd git-repo
$ git checkout -b master hg