On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 08:58:16AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Those with specific needs (e.g., "A project uses Mercuial; I want > its history in Git because I am used to it more") will never come to > our contrib/ as their first place to look, but they may still find > us in https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=mercurial+to+git if we left an > otherwise empty directory there. Thanks, I was going to write something similar, but you did it much better than I would have. :) I was curious what results such a search _would_ turn up these days. The top hits for me (keeping in mind that sometimes search results are personalized, of course) are: - https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git which suggests hg-fast-export to git-fast-import for a one-time conversion. - https://docs.github.com/en/migrations/importing-source-code/using-the-command-line-to-import-source-code/importing-a-mercurial-repository which does likewise. - https://www.alexpage.de/guides/convert-a-mercurial-hg-repository-to-git/ which suggests using hg-git to push into the Git repository. I suggested remote-hg or cinnabar, which is what I would have turned to. But I guess those are more about continuous interoperability rather than a one-shot conversion (and of course are based on fast-export/import under the hood anyway). Anyway, the important takeaway to me is that searches are not likely to end up at contrib/hg-to-git, with people wondering where it went. They will point directly to the alternatives. -Peff
