[Eric] Switching from Mercurial to Git

[Tony Arnold]

Hi Detlev,


On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 18:46 +0200, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>  
>  
> Am Mittwoch, 28. August 2019, 21:55:32 CEST schrieb Tony Arnold:
> > I've been using Mercurial as the VCS for my Python projects and
> Bitbucket
> > for the remote repository. As you may know Bitbucket are dropping
> Mercurial
> > in favour of Git on 1st June 2020.
>  
> > So my question is is there a straight forward way to change the VCS
> used by
> > an Eric project from Mercurial to Git? I don't see a menu option to
> do
> > this, but could I, say, remove the VCS section in the .e4p file and
> then
> > update the project properties to use Git as its VCS?
>  
> If you'd do it that way you would loose all your VCS history. A quick
> Googling showed this recipe "
> https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git
> ". There is no built in method. Once that is done you may modify the
> project file. Unless you have configured some VCS options just change
> "<VcsType>Mercurial</VcsType>" to read "<VcsType>Git</VcsType>".

It would be nice to keep the history but I'm not too concerned if I
lose it. It's only my own software that's involved. There are no other
authors, and it's not shared with anyone.

I've tried hg-fast-export but it fails on me. Some of my hg repos are
messed up with hanging branches etc, which doesn't help. The link you
gave does give more information than I had before so I'll take another
look.

> Another alternative would be to setup your own Mercurial server. That
> way you know exactly whom to blame.

Indeed so! I see that as a very last resort though.

Regards,
Tony.
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