Re: importing mercurial patch

["Ondrej Certik" <ondrej@certik.cz>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej@certik.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like git to be able to import mercurial-exported patches. This
> short Python program does it:
>
>
> -------------------------------------
> #! /usr/bin/python
>
> import os
> import sys
> import re
> import tempfile
>
> def run(cmd):
>    print cmd
>    os.system(cmd)
>
> patch = sys.argv[1]
> p = open(patch).read()
> author = re.search("# User (.+)", p).groups()[0]
> p = p.split("\n")
> while not p[0].startswith("# Parent"):
>    del p[0]
> i = 1
> while not p[i].startswith("diff -r "):
>    i += 1
> commit_message = "\n".join(p[1:i])
> _, filename = tempfile.mkstemp()
> f = open(filename, "w")
> f.write(commit_message)
> f.close()
>
> run("git apply %s" % patch)
> run("git ci -a --author='%s' -F %s" % (author, filename) )
> ---------------------
>
>
> How should this be implemented in git? Should I try to extend
> "git-am.sh" to handle it?

Just to make it clear --- I will of course use sh or C with git, I
only used Python above because that's the language I know the best.

Ondrej