Tools to facilitate using hg git as a git client for hg
Project description
This app allows you to do local development in a git repository and push your changes to an upstream mercurial repository.
It tries not to affect the upstream mercurial repo in any way. Thus, only a restricted git workflow is available to you.
gitifyhg communicates between the two repos using patches. These are applied using hg export, hg import, git format-patch, and git am.
Currently, gitifyhg does import upstream hg branches at all and it’s primary purpose is to keep master synced up with default in the mercurial repository. It can rebase master onto the hg upstream, and it can push patches from master to upstream.
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Dependencies
gitifyhg explicitly depends on:
These packages will be installed automatically by easy_install, pip, setup.py install, or setup.py develop.
gitifyhg also expects the following to be installed on your os:
Supports
gitifyhg has been tested to run on:
cPython 2.6
cPython 2.7
cPython 3.3
pypy
It has only been tested on Arch Linux. I expect all Linux operating systems to work fine with it and I suspect MacOS will also react well. All bets are off with Windows, but please let me know if it works or you fixed it.
Install
gitifyhg is a properly designed Python package. You can get it from pypi using either
pip install gitifyhg
or
easy_install gitifyhg
gitifyhg works in a virtualenv, but you’re probably just as well off to install it at the system level.
You can also install manually with
git clone https://github.com/buchuki/gitifyhg.git python setup.py install
If you want to hack on it, use setup.py develop, instead. In this case, you probably are better off using a virtualenv.
Instructions
Get your Mercurial default branch into a reasonable state and push all your changes.
Run gitifyhg clone <mercurial repository url>. This will create a new git repository just like git clone. There will be a hidden .gitifyhg directory in there that holds a working mercurial clone of the upstream repo and an intermediate directory for patches.
cd repo_name
Set up your .gitignore. You’ll probably want to add .gitignore itself to the list of ignored files, as you don’t want to tip upstream off that you are using a superior DVCS. You’ll also want to add .gitifyhg, as well as any patterns that are in the .hgignore from the original repo. You can symlink .gitignore to .hgignore provided the .hgignore uses glob syntax. See http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgignore.5.html for more information.
git checkout -b working_branch_name. You can work directly on master, but I would avoid it to makes recovering from problems easier.
Use git however you see fit. Use git flow, use rebase -i, use commit --amend, use add -p. Use all the wonderful git tools that you have been aching to have available while being forced to work on mercurial repositories.
At some point, you’ll be ready to publish your changes to the hg repository. First run git hgrebase to pull in changes from mercurial default and have them appended to git master. If you have patches on master, they will be rebased onto the new patches from upstream.
Rebase your working branch onto master and then merge it into master (or use git-flow for more sensible commands):
git checkout working_branch_name git rebase master git checkout master git merge master
git hgpush to push your patches upstream. It will present an error if there were upstream changes while you were doing the rebase step, so you don’t have to worry too much about merge fail.
License
gitifyhg is copyright 2012 Dusty Phillips and is licensed under the GNU General Public License
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