Convert a Mercurial Repository to Git

Question

Hi, I've already tried hg2git through fast-export and I've already tried hg-git.

Both with no success. hg2git actually worked, but I had to ask a friend who runs a Unix machine to do it. And that messed up all the linefeeds throughout the files.

hg-git simply failed with some libzip compression error.

Has anyone had any success converting a hg repo to git on Windows?

To be clear, I don't care about interop. I want to port the whole repo from hg to git, taking the history with me. I don't need to push changes back and forth - only convert once.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

There doesn't seem to be any reason you can't run hg2git on windows. It's python which has a windows port. Just make sure the proper libraries are there and run it on the window box.

Answer 2

If you're really only looking to do it this once you can use hg export like this:

hg export 0:tip -o all-changesets-in-one.patch

or if git prefers only one patch per file you can create one per changeset like this:

hg export 0:tip -o changeset-%r.patch

presumably git apply can take one or the other of those formats.