Mercurial working with SVN
Brad Ediger
brad at bradediger.com
Fri Nov 9 14:13:06 UTC 2007
On Nov 9, 2007, at 7:27 AM, Gábor Farkas wrote:
> Marcin Kasperski wrote:
>> dhruva <dhruvakm at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> There is one feature in Git that I would love to see it in
>>> Mercurial.
>>> Ability to work directly with SVN. Is it planned/possible or not
>>> considered useful? There are some projects at work which have to
>>> be on
>>> SVN, I personally would like to use Mercurial, show them that it
>>> does
>>> work and slowly work on migration from SVN to hg.
>>
>> Have you tried hgimportsvn/hgpullsvn?
>> (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/hgsvn)
>
> they work nicely, but they only do the svn=>hg route.
They actually also come with the parallel tool for hg=>svn
(hgpushsvn), but it is not installed by default (still not production-
ready). I have used hgpushsvn with good luck on a few projects, but
of course you need to keep in mind the fact that you are working with
a dual working directory (svn and hg) and what that implies.
Brad
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