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How is Git's Mercurial to Git?

How is Git's Mercurial to Git?

Posted Apr 2, 2009 9:55 UTC (Thu) by Gollum (subscriber, #25237)
In reply to: How is Git's Mercurial to Git? by alex
Parent article: Python switches to Mercurial

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.


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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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