Converting Mercurial repositories to Git

📅 Sep 23, 2013

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How to convert Mercurial (hg) repos to Git, including all commits and history:

Install Mercurial 1.7.5. Later versions may work, but that’s what I use.
Install hg-git (a Mercurial extension). I’m not exactly sure what version I use, all I can say is that the version does matter, different hg-git versions work (or not) with different Mercurial versions. A link to more information about finding the right combination is at the bottom of the hg-git page.
Install git (latest version is fine).
Create a “bare” git repository, like this:
```
git init --bare myrepo.git
```
“Push” the hg repo to the git repo:
```
hg push /path/to/myrepo.git
```
If everything went well, you can now clone the Git repo to get your files back:
```
git clone /path/to/myrepo.git myrepo
```