title: Converting from hg to git link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/converting-from-hg-to-git/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 7816 created: 2014/06/04 03:01:15 created_gmt: 2014/06/04 07:01:15 comment_status: closed post_name: converting-from-hg-to-git status: publish post_type: post

Recently I decided to switch from Mercurial to git as my home source control system. This is mostly because we're moving towards git at work and I need to master it. These are some very simple notes on the process I followed.

This article was extremely helpful to me. Following those directions I was able to take an existing Mercurial repo and convert it to git, all the while preserving its commit history.

My setup has two places for sources, ~/source/hg and ~/source/git.

The former is for my Mercurial repositories, the latter for git. Here are the steps:

1. Create temporary git repo.

$ cd ~/source/git
$ git init --bare lemboscripts.git

2. Push your existing Mercurial repo into this new git repo.

$ cd ~/source/hg/lemboscripts
$ hg push ~/source/git/lemboscripts.git

3. Now clone to a fresh repository.

$ cd ~/source/git
$ git clone lemboscripts.git lemboscripts

4. Verify everything worked by doing a "git status" and then "git log" to see the history.

$ git log
commit 93280e90158e905886ee330c3025a2c124142b5f
Author: Phil Lembo <philipATlembobrothers.com>
Date: Sun May 18 10:03:27 2014 -0400
Scripts used in installing & running Fedora 20 on the Acer C720.

commit 84488d3f41b9aff01e40b675cc8e71504f27614e
Author: Phil Lembo <philipATlembobrothers.com>
Date: Sat May 10 02:16:33 2014 -0400
Remove width from <main> elements.

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