problems converting from CVS to mercurial (via fastimport)

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 23:38 +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 01:39:09PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Convert does something weird with git branches vs remotes -> bookmark
> > mapping. So you may not actually be on the commit you think you're on.
> > See:
> > 
> > http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4681#c3
> 
> Ok...
> 
> > At any rate, hg-git is now the gold standard for git->hg conversion,
> > since it's deployed in production for continuous conversion of some very
> > large repositories.
> 
> Yes, in my test it worked better than hg convert. Please update the
> documentation and wiki for this, for me it was absolutely not clear
> that this is the recommended way before you told me so :)

Sure.. but it's a wiki!

> Should I file a bug report for the 'hg convert' problem I see when
> converting directly from CVS? (see other mail in this thread)

Sure.. but that's what I'm responding to here?

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