hg-git plugin, problem with local cloning: bookmarks

[Simon King]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
>
>    > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
>
>    > I'm not much of an hg-git user, so I may be wrong here, but I would
>    > guess that you need to get the git repository that is being managed by
>    > hg-git (which I think is stored at <repo>/.hg/git) to point at the
>    > server, rather than at the local repo that you originally cloned it
>    > from. Then you can run "git fetch" in it to fetch all the branches
>    > from the server. I think the commands should be:
>
>    >   cd <auctex-hg-repo>/.hg/git
>    >   git remote set-url origin git://git.savannah.gnu.org/auctex.git
>    >   cd ../..
>    >   hg pull
>
> This did not work, but it gave me a hint, which did what I wanted.
>
> Instead of fiddling arount with the config file in ./hg/git
>
> I modified the hgrc file in .hg
>
> changing
>
> [paths]
> default = /home/oub/ALLES/emacs/site-lisp/packages/src/Git/auctex.git
>
> To
> [paths]
> default = git://git.savannah.gnu.org/auctex.git
>
> Then hg pull pulled the other «branches».
>
> Thanks this was not at all obvious to me
>
> Uwe

Ah yes, of course, "hg pull" must override the git-configured URL with
the hg-configured one. Makes perfect sense really :-)

I'm glad you've got it working,

Simon