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Replace some references from hg2git to hg-fast-import

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Signed-off-by: Rocco Rutte <pdmef@gmx.net>
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Rocco Rutte
2007-03-16 18:19:08 +00:00
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hg2git.(sh|py) - mercurial to git converter using git-fast-import
hg-fast-import.(sh|py) - mercurial to git converter using git-fast-import
Legal
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@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ Using it is quite simple for a mercurial repository <repo>:
mkdir repo-git # or whatever
cd repo-git
git init
hg2git.sh -r <repo>
hg-fast-import.sh -r <repo>
Incremental imports to track hg repos is supported, too.
Notes/Limitations
=================
hg2git supports multiple branches but only named branches with exaclty
hg-fast-import supports multiple branches but only named branches with exaclty
one head each. Otherwise commits to the tip of these heads within branch
will get flattened into merge commits.
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ when importing a small number of changesets per incremental import).
Design
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hg2git.py was designed in a way that doesn't require a 2-pass mechanism
hg-fast-import.py was designed in a way that doesn't require a 2-pass mechanism
or any prior repository analysis: if just feeds what it finds into
git-fast-import. This also implies that it heavily relies on strictly
linear ordering of changesets from hg, i.e. its append-only storage
model so that changesets hg2git already saw never get modified.
model so that changesets hg-fast-import already saw never get modified.
Todo
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