Transfer the githashes to the mercurial repository (locally)

[ouboub]

Hi
I am a mercurial user, who clones git repository to my machine and then use your converter to generate
the corresponding mercurial repositories (with named branches), work and would then to push to the remote git
server via hg-git.
That however currently is not possible since your converter does not transfer the git hashes to the (local) mercurial repository.
Is there any change that you might consider implementing such a feature?
I don't know enough git and python to try this even. I will rise this question also on the hg-git mailing list
regards
Uwe Brauer

[felipec]

That however currently is not possible since your converter does not transfer the git hashes to the (local) mercurial repository.

Neither does hg-git. If you clone a git repository with hg-git you are able to use the extra gitnode information, but only as long as you have hg-git enabled, and the git remote properly configured.

This information is not stored in the hg repository anywhere. If you clone this repository again, that information is not visible.

You would need to request to the developers of hg-git that they store the gitnode information in the hg repository somehow. Only after they implement this can git-remote-hg do the equivalent.

[ouboub]

Hi

I run some tests and have a proposal to make

I run some experiments I am describing below, and in a nutshell I would like to ask/suggest if the git-hg-remote converter could generate a git-mapfile (whose syntax I describe below) based on the files git-hg-remote already generated namely

marks-git and marks-hg

I don't posses enough python knowledge to even try to do this.

Notation

hg-git

A repository that will be generated, or cloned by hg-git will take the prefix hg-git

git-hg-remote

A repository that will be generated, or cloned by git-hg-remote will take the prefix git-hg-remote

A public very simple repository at gitlab

https://gitlab.com/kalthad/named-branch-only

Clone with git

check the git branches

git branch -a 
git log --all --oneline --decorate --graph --first-parent 

Start an empty local hg repository

hg init git-hg-remote-named-branch

configure git-hg-remote

Set up the mercurial remote

git remote add hg-remote hg::../git-hg-remote-named-branch-only
git config remote.hg-remote.push 'refs/heads/*:refs/heads/branches/*'
git config remote.hg-remote.pull 'refs/heads/*:refs/heads/branches/*'

Push only if switched to

git push hg-remote default
git push hg-remote feature
git push hg-remote remotes/origin/feature:refs/heads/branches/feature

Try to generate a git-mapfile based on marks-git marks-hg

orginal git-mapfile (when cloning with hg-git or generating and pushing with hg-git

ed1206f14ed48a17d00b56403c99dca74d10f575 83d3589bf47eb299fa103ba834bc390e41ba5678
c8ea5013c9c0401903d89d6b403a1d744594bade a781344b9ba14647f95555e84bf38b49a627f24c
57576cb5b70c597cea9576e266101af6778e9dcb 5a853b1b8099f006945ed16da4879debbe1e1683
6bbbf2e4d4f271ebf058dca4ed5d0632051675ff 351bc15959f5c15ff58e3d678689397b5b226c35
11b965e2ce5481d8b0d7cc88100cd768d054ce0e ed51df2fef5e24132ea194899d2204032c291581
eadba3450656ceef32fe09323799657648e7d870 ca177dfb0ce7cff95fd0707f3b26f923c2edd370
248de8768d4fd9067392bad7a90535a9fda39e2c d4a11b708308f69be2d2ce39f7b0bdc50657d9e6
420192f6f3109a7c8ae2a09980b11e4f862c59d2 833ed1dd48c52c5abd9ec5788ecc64931de22eef

Where

Git	HG
ed1206f14ed48a17d00b56403c99dca74d10f575	83d3589bf47eb299fa103ba834bc390e41ba5678
c8ea5013c9c0401903d89d6b403a1d744594bade	a781344b9ba14647f95555e84bf38b49a627f24c
57576cb5b70c597cea9576e266101af6778e9dcb	5a853b1b8099f006945ed16da4879debbe1e1683
6bbbf2e4d4f271ebf058dca4ed5d0632051675ff	351bc15959f5c15ff58e3d678689397b5b226c35
11b965e2ce5481d8b0d7cc88100cd768d054ce0e	ed51df2fef5e24132ea194899d2204032c291581
eadba3450656ceef32fe09323799657648e7d870	ca177dfb0ce7cff95fd0707f3b26f923c2edd370
248de8768d4fd9067392bad7a90535a9fda39e2c	d4a11b708308f69be2d2ce39f7b0bdc50657d9e6
420192f6f3109a7c8ae2a09980b11e4f862c59d2	833ed1dd48c52c5abd9ec5788ecc64931de22eef

marks git

:2 eadba3450656ceef32fe09323799657648e7d870
:12 57576cb5b70c597cea9576e266101af6778e9dcb
:14 420192f6f3109a7c8ae2a09980b11e4f862c59d2
:8 11b965e2ce5481d8b0d7cc88100cd768d054ce0e
:16 c8ea5013c9c0401903d89d6b403a1d744594bade
:4 ed1206f14ed48a17d00b56403c99dca74d10f575
:10 6bbbf2e4d4f271ebf058dca4ed5d0632051675ff
:6 248de8768d4fd9067392bad7a90535a9fda39e2c

marks hg

{"tips": {}, "last-mark": 16, "last-note": 0, "version": 0, "marks": {"83d3589bf47eb299fa103ba834bc390e41ba5678": 4, "a781344b9ba14647f95555e84bf38b49a627f24c": 16, "d4a11b708308f69be2d2ce39f7b0bdc50657d9e6": 6, "351bc15959f5c15ff58e3d678689397b5b226c35": 10, "ed51df2fef5e24132ea194899d2204032c291581": 8, "ca177dfb0ce7cff95fd0707f3b26f923c2edd370": 2, "5a853b1b8099f006945ed16da4879debbe1e1683": 12, "833ed1dd48c52c5abd9ec5788ecc64931de22eef": 14}}

Generate the git-mapfile

Important is the relation not the order it seems

| 2 | eadba3450656ceef32fe09323799657648e7d870 | 2 | ca177dfb0ce7cff95fd0707f3b26f923c2edd370 |
| 4 | ed1206f14ed48a17d00b56403c99dca74d10f575 | 4 | 83d3589bf47eb299fa103ba834bc390e41ba5678 |
| 6 | 248de8768d4fd9067392bad7a90535a9fda39e2c | 6 | d4a11b708308f69be2d2ce39f7b0bdc50657d9e6 |
| 8 | 11b965e2ce5481d8b0d7cc88100cd768d054ce0e | 8 | ed51df2fef5e24132ea194899d2204032c291581 |
| 10 | 6bbbf2e4d4f271ebf058dca4ed5d0632051675ff | 10 | 351bc15959f5c15ff58e3d678689397b5b226c35 |
| 12 | 57576cb5b70c597cea9576e266101af6778e9dcb | 12 | 5a853b1b8099f006945ed16da4879debbe1e1683 |
| 14 | 420192f6f3109a7c8ae2a09980b11e4f862c59d2 | 14 | 833ed1dd48c52c5abd9ec5788ecc64931de22eef |
| 16 | c8ea5013c9c0401903d89d6b403a1d744594bade | 16 | a781344b9ba14647f95555e84bf38b49a627f24c |

Result

eadba3450656ceef32fe09323799657648e7d870 ca177dfb0ce7cff95fd0707f3b26f923c2edd370 ed1206f14ed48a17d00b56403c99dca74d10f575 83d3589bf47eb299fa103ba834bc390e41ba5678 248de8768d4fd9067392bad7a90535a9fda39e2c d4a11b708308f69be2d2ce39f7b0bdc50657d9e6 11b965e2ce5481d8b0d7cc88100cd768d054ce0e ed51df2fef5e24132ea194899d2204032c291581 6bbbf2e4d4f271ebf058dca4ed5d0632051675ff 351bc15959f5c15ff58e3d678689397b5b226c35 57576cb5b70c597cea9576e266101af6778e9dcb 5a853b1b8099f006945ed16da4879debbe1e1683 420192f6f3109a7c8ae2a09980b11e4f862c59d2 833ed1dd48c52c5abd9ec5788ecc64931de22eef c8ea5013c9c0401903d89d6b403a1d744594bade a781344b9ba14647f95555e84bf38b49a627f24c

add the hgrc file and the git subdirectory

Source: hg-git-named-branch-only/.hg/hgrc

Source: hg-git-named-branch-only/.hg/git

Target git-hg-remote-named-branch-only/.hg

Now add a commit and push from git-hg-remote-named-branch-only to remote

Merge and push from git-hg-remote-named-branch-only to remote

Pull from git and then add a commit push the to local git-hg-remote-named-branch-only

Everything seems to work fine

So any change to add the functionality to generate the git-mapfile that could one use, obviously at one own's risk, together with hg-git to push directly to the remote git repository?

Thanks