Problem converting a remote Git repository

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 05/07/2015 04:14 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Matt,
>
> On Wednesday, 2015-05-06 15:54:27 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Generally speaking, you can't do ANYTHING with a remote repository
>> except make a local clone of it.
>
> Well, I think I can live with that.  So it probably boils down to a doc-
> umentation problem.  Examples in, for instance  "Mercurial: The Definit-
> ive Guide" (at least in the 2009 edition)  suggest that the "hg convert"
> command works  with remote repositories  (well, at least with Subversion
> repositories).   And in fact it DOES still work with Subversion, provid-
> ed you have the Subversion Python bindings installed.

Conversion can be done from a remote subversion repository because there 
is often no way to get a local copy of the subversion repository. While 
DVCS always give you the option to have a local clone to get your 
expensive operation done. The "getting a whole repo" operation is 
optimised so that the server spend the minimal amount of resource to 
provide all the data you need (for whatever usage, in you case, conversion)


-- 
Pierre-Yves David