status of SVN to Mercurial conversion tools

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-08-27 16:33, Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
>Ralf Schmitt ha scritto:
>> I want to convert my Subversion repositories to Mercurial
>> repositories.
>>
>> hgsvn does exactly that.
>
> You are right, sorry.  However it pulls svn history using the client
> server protocol, and it is slow.

If you have a local svnroot dump, then that's too slow, but if you don't
and there is no way to get your hands on one, it may be the only way to
run a 'conversion' script :-)

> Moreover hgsvn has the side affect of producing a svn working copy,
> that I do not need.

Try the builtin "hg convert" support of recent "crew" builds, and let us
know how it worked then :-)