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Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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@@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ If you want 'git-remote-hg' to be compatible with 'hg-git', and generate exactly
Remember to run `git gc --aggressive` after cloning a repository, specially if
it's a big one. Otherwise lots of space will be wasted.
The oldest version of mercurial supported is 1.9. For the most part 1.8 works,
but you might experience some issues.
The newest supported version of Mercurial is 6.1 but only through Python 2. The
oldest one is 2.4.
Support for Python 3 is on the way.
=== Pushing branches ===
@@ -111,11 +113,14 @@ Limitations of the remote-helpers' framework apply.
== Other projects ==
There are other 'git-remote-hg' projects out there, do not confuse this one,
this is the one distributed officially by the Git project:
There are other 'git-remote-hg' projects out there, this is the original, which
was distributed officially the Git project.
* https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/Guide-to-git-remote-hg[msysgit's git-remote-hg]
* https://github.com/rfk/git-remote-hg[rfk's git-remote-hg]
Over the years many similar tools have died out, the only actively maintained
altnernative is mnauw's fork of this project:
https://github.com/mnauw/git-remote-hg[mnauw/git-remote-hg]. I've merged some of
his patches, and he has merged some of my patches, so the projects are mostly in
sync, but not quite.
For a comparison between these and other projects go
https://github.com/felipec/git/wiki/Comparison-of-git-remote-hg-alternatives[here].