Documenting my experience pushing mercurial repos to git (and github specifically).
Install hg-git
Follow https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git/src/tip/README.md
Install dulwich >= 0.6. On ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-dulwich
Get the latest version of hg-git:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git
Add it to your extensions
[extensions]
git = path/to/hg-git/hggit
Push an existing mercurial repo
Assuming you’ve got a git repo somewhere, e.g. for me (rgrp) on github:
cd my-current-mercurial-repo
hg push git+ssh://[email protected]/rgrp/myrepo
Really important note: do not change git before the @ sign to your username as you would in mercurial but leave it as ‘git’ (this cost me around 20m of googling with errors like
Permission denied (publickey).
abort: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
You may also want to check your ssh setup with github really is working (see http://help.github.com/troubleshooting-ssh/).