Problem converting a remote Git repository

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 14:07 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Attempting to  convert a remote  Git repository  to Mercurial I ran into
> the following problem:

Generally speaking, you can't do ANYTHING with a remote repository
except make a local clone of it. Both Mercurial and Git intentionally
don't provide any facilities for doing the thousands and thousands of
tiny queries something like a conversion would take. Instead, you're
supposed to do it locally and not waste the server's CPU and bandwidth.

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