fast-export

A mercurial to git converter using git-fast-import

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A mercurial to git converter using git-fast-import

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2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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compumike·Feb 15, 2020

Also salty! For hg->git migration, https://github.com/frej/fast-export worked smoothly for me. mkdir new-git-repo cd new-git-repo git init fast-export/hg-fast-export.sh -r ../path-to-old-hg-repo (probably want to translate .hgignore to .gitignore and commit it) git remote add origin git@path_to:git_server git push -u origin master git push --all

In Scaling Bitbucket’s Database

niftich·Aug 25, 2016

libgit2 [1] In fact, there exist many alternative 'frontends' to Git. There are even protocol translators like Hg-Git [2], and many importers that typically use the fast-import format to ingest Git-impl primitives [3] [1] https://libgit2.github.com/ [2] http://hg-git.github.io/ [3] https://github.com/frej/fast-export

In Git Undo

i336_·Aug 24, 2015

DEADLINE: The banner above every GC page says August 25, the Wiki page above says August 24. So let's just say "ACT IMMEDIATELY." Do you know anyone (who knows anyone, ...) with anything up on GC? Go and tell them IMMEDIATELY to edit their project(s') homepages to add new homepage URLs. Remember that the URLs will need to be stable for a couple of years at least, since it will soon be nontrivial to change them. To summarize the link, - Google Code will go readonly in 1-2 days - After Jan 2016, `git`, `hg`, `svn` - and possibly the `[Export to GitHub]` button - will all break, and the data behind these endpoints will be made available in `.zip` and `JSON` formats - provided it is PUBLIC: private data (`Restrict-View-` et. al.) will go away - Archived data (`.zip` and `JSON`), to quote, "will remain online for a long time." If you still nee

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d to export your data, [I heard](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3i58k5/google_...) that [fast-export](https://github.com/frej/fast-export).py will cleanly turn a `hg` repo into a Git one without getting confused like GitHub's exporter sometimes can. Apparently you'll be able to email google-code-shutdown@google.com after the deadline and have project pages edited manually (you can apparently even have "redirects" set up, not sure if this is a `Location:` redirect or something else) - but this will not be instantaneous, especially not to begin with (RIP this address's inbox in a couple days). (PS. You might spot this message elsewhere online - not trying to spam, just trying to help everyone.)

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