hg-git plugin, and git-fast export

Arne Babenhauserheide arne_bab at web.de
Fri Jan 22 16:15:17 UTC 2016


Harvey Chapman writes:

> On Jan 22, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab at web.de> wrote:
>> Branching and merging mostly works with hg-git, as long as you keep in
>> mind that git branches are just bookmarks and have no intrinsic
>> meaning.
>
> The only thing I would add is to be a little careful with modifying history (e.g. commit —amend, strip). Then, you might need “hg git-cleanup”, “hg gimport”, and/or “hg gexport”. I’ve never gotten myself into a mess that I couldn’t fix.

I avoid this problem with the bridge-repo. With that I can hit the
history with anything I like and everything keeps working. Git users
don’t even realize what I do.

Best wishes,
Arne
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