From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gelonida N Subject: Re: Can git pull from a mercurial repository? Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:43:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <50585F10.3080307@op5.se> <000a01cd959a$d8cd0730$8a671590$@schmitz-digital.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 25 09:43:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TGPnx-0004iV-SG for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:43:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753477Ab2IYHnd (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:43:33 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51212 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750839Ab2IYHnc (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:43:32 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TGPnq-0004di-Aq for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:43:34 +0200 Received: from unicorn.dungeon.de ([81.56.82.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:43:34 +0200 Received: from gelonida by unicorn.dungeon.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:43:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: unicorn.dungeon.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: <000a01cd959a$d8cd0730$8a671590$@schmitz-digital.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 09/18/2012 02:40 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote: >> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae@op5.se] >> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 1:46 PM >> To: Joachim Schmitz >> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org >> Subject: Re: Can git pull from a mercurial repository? >> >> On 09/18/2012 01:22 PM, Joachim Schmitz wrote: >>> Is there an easy way to get git to clone/pull from a Mercurial repository? >>> >> >> Yes. Google "git remote helpers" and you'll most likely find it. > > Well, I found a few. No idea how to get them to work though (so far for the 'easy' part of my question) > > It seems https://github.com/rfk/git-remote-hg requires Python 2.5 (and I only have 2.4), also I have no idea how to get it installed > https://github.com/SRabbelier/git is 3 years old, apparently never made it into git, guess for a reason? > Then I found https://github.com/fingolfin/git/commits/remote-hg, looks very confusing to me... Install a newer python and hg Are you really sure, that python 2.5 doesn't exist for your machine? Most non embedded devices should offer python 2.5 or newer (for some distros you just have to add 'alternative' repositories)