We hear from a number of people who are using Mercurial for their projects but want to host them on GitHub because they want their project to benefit from the community here. Or perhaps they are in a group where some of the developers want to use Mercurial and others want to use Git and so they just stick with Subversion (ugh). We don’t want to live in a world where developers who are ready to switch to a DVCS end up staying with Subversion.
So, I’ve been working on a plugin for Mercurial that lets it communicate with a Git server as a native Git client. I give you hg-git!
This means that if you are a Mercurial developer you can install this plugin and then push and pull to and from Git servers, either GitHub or somewhere else. It is a lossless bi-directional bridge, meaning you can push to a Git server from one Hg user, then another Hg user can clone using this plugin and the node ids will all be identical. It can even handle things like tags, explicit renames, named branches, octopus merges and more.
The plugin is pretty far along at this point – I’ve been using it for all the hg-git development and I’ve heard from a number of others who are using it successfully even on relatively large projects. It is slow sometimes and may not handle some edge cases well, but the software is rapidly maturing. If you do use it, please let me know about any issues you run into, we want to make this rock solid.
There are no external dependencies – the library is entirely written in python and contains a pure python implementation of all the Git functionality it needs, so you don’t need to have Git installed locally at all. It has been known to work with Mercurial 1.1 and 1.2 – let me know if you try it with something else.
Usage
From Hg with the plugin installed, you can clone a Git repository like this:
$ hg clone git://github.com/schacon/munger.gitOr, if you have an existing Hg repository, you can run something like this:
$ cd myproject # (an Hg repository) $ hg gremote add origin git(at)github.com:schacon/myproject.git $ hg gpushWith those two commands you can basically import your Hg repository into a GitHub repository. Then people can fork and work on your code in Hg or in Git and push back up, then you can pull in any contributed work with something like this:
$ hg gremote add scott git://github.com/scott/project.git $ hg gfetch scott $ hg updateThe basic commands the plugin adds to the Hg command library are ‘gclone’, ‘gremote’, ‘gpush’ and ‘gfetch’ – all roughly equivalent to their Git counterparts. Also, running a normal ‘hg clone’ with an identifiable Git protocol (git://, git+ssh://) will fire up ‘gclone’ automatically.
See the hg-git homepage for more information.
Cool! But what about the other direction? I'm a git user, but I'd like to be able to benefit from projects hosted in Mercurial.
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hg. What you're talking about sounds more likely to be a plugin forgit.So does that mean that we can use TortoiseHg with Git, now?
@spicyj i think tortoise hg needs to know about the gpush and gpull commands first.
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Some of my favorite projects use Mercurial (webmachine, RabbitMQ). I hope this will encourage them to join the party over here (sorry, bitbucket is not half as cool).
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@kballard: this is a two-way bridge. By definition, this means that you can now use Git to work on Mercurial projects -- and push to Bitbucket. No need for Github any more :-)
technically, you can use this to use Git to collaborate on Hg hosted projects - there are 'gimport' and 'gexport' commands that will just do the object translations - but it's a bit more convoluted. i'll try to write up a guide on how to do that at some point after this is all settled down.
I tried to convert an old project I had in hg to git with mercurial 0.9.5 (like I said, old project :)) and this didn't work, updated to the newest stable (1.2.1) and all was well.
Oh, and thanks Scott, saved me the hassle of (among other things) going back to this project occasionally and always accidentally typing 'git st' :)
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This is great. I have been using git on Linux at work and loving it flower. But I am mixed Mac and Windows at home and git on windows has not been cutting it. Having the hg option will be really nice.
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By definition, this means that you can now use Git to work on Mercurial projects -- and push to Bitbucket. No need for Github any more :-)
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It's a two way bridge?! It's means that you can now use Git to work on Mercurial projects and push to another?
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That's a very clever name. can you have two or more clients writing or modifying the same project at the same time. Or is it staggered and being revision controlled?
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This in particular makes me very happy. I remember when GitHub's founders would bitch in every single thread about Mercurial that Bitbucket's leach of a developer deserved to rot in hell for ripping off their entirely-original UI wholesale. It was a tremendous turnoff for me, both to GitHub and to Git. This demonstrates a vastly higher level of maturity. My congratulations to the GitHub team for growing up. Keep it up and I'd consider using your product.
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Please keep in mind that this is beta software right now - please don't use it for super important stuff quite yet. I'm maintaining the plugin in Hg and pushing to and pulling from GitHub, but the Hg->Git->Hg conversions are not always lossless yet. A couple days/weeks and the mappings should be a bit more stabilized. If you do try it out and you run into a problem, please do file an issue on GitHub.
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