problems converting from CVS to mercurial (via fastimport)

[Thomas Klausner]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 09:23:20AM -0500, Benjamin Fritz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:58 AM, Thomas Klausner <tk at giga.or.at> wrote:
> > My idea was to convert the CVS repository to a hg repository and use
> > that as master. It seems that using hg-git I would stop at the git
> > repository step.
> 
> No, if you use hg-git, you create a *Mercurial* repository from a git
> repository. While Mercurial can communicate with the original git
> repository in this way, nothing *forces* you to keep using the git
> repository. IIUC, you can clone, push, and pull to and from "normal"
> Mercurial repositories with an hg-git Mercurial repository.

Oh, I had misunderstood. Thanks for the explanation.

Running that extension on the git copy gives me the same checkout as a
direct git checkout gives -- great! Thanks.
 Thomas