Convert Mercurial project to Git

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gandolf picture gandolf · Apr 16, 2013 · Viewed 115.5k times · Source

I need to convert a mercurial project to a git project, but I would like to keep the commit history intact. My current solution was to just remove hg related files and then git init && add manually the files I needed, but that would not keep the history. Are there any solutions to this?

Answer

alexclooze picture alexclooze · Apr 16, 2013

You can try using fast-export:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/frej/fast-export.git
git init git_repo
cd git_repo
~/fast-export/hg-fast-export.sh -r /path/to/old/mercurial_repo
git checkout HEAD

Also have a look at this SO question.

If you're using Mercurial version below 4.6, adrihanu got your back:

As he stated in his comment: "In case you use Mercurial < 4.6 and you got "revsymbol not found" error. You need to update your Mercurial or downgrade fast-export by running git checkout tags/v180317 inside ~/fast-export directory.".

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