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How is Git's Mercurial to Git?

How is Git's Mercurial to Git?

Posted Mar 30, 2009 22:30 UTC (Mon) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
Parent article: Python switches to Mercurial

Of course one good aspect of all the open DVCS's is a strong desire to
keep them interoperable as far as import/export operations go. I
already track a number of SVN projects in git and I suspect people
that prefer git can still do day to day work on Python with it without
touching Hg if they don't want to.


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How is Git's Mercurial to Git?

Posted Apr 2, 2009 9:55 UTC (Thu) by Gollum (subscriber, #25237) [Link]

Yes, they are generally interoperable.

Except, as far as I know, Mercurial keeps some metadata versioned as well, which makes building a bidirectional git <-> Hg gateway difficult, as the SHA1 hashes don't quite match up, and can't easily be rebuilt.

How is Git's Mercurial to Git?

Posted Apr 5, 2009 16:47 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

A Hg <--> git gateway is a must if they are going to use mercurial, IMHO...

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